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To want to launch myself across the office and knock her out?

72 replies

BigSandyBalls2015 · 20/07/2017 13:11

I'm raging 😡

A colleague died recently (he was late 40s with 3 teenagers) and a couple of people from the office went to the funeral.

One of them is just loudly telling the person next to her (very large open plan office) how the funeral went. Fair enough but I'm gob smacked at what she has said:

Wife wasn't what she expected, plainer, larger, dumpy. Quite cold and didn't really greet people properly

Sons have inherited dads receding hair, girl quite pretty ish

Odd choice of music, wouldn't have chose. It herself.

Food crap at wake, cheap

FFS I always thought she was a piece of work but this is a whole new level 😡😡

OP posts:
user1476869312 · 20/07/2017 13:41

This is your business how, exactly? The conversation isn't meant for you. Ignore her and get on with your work.

Agerbilatemycardigan · 20/07/2017 13:42

Fucking hell! What the fuck did she expect the poor widow to do - run around air kissing everyone and complimenting their bloody outfits?!

She sounds like a real cunt peach OP.

Give her a smack from the rest of us here too 😡

fatowl · 20/07/2017 13:45

My mums SIL had a moan to my mum at my dads funeral because he'd had the audacity to pass away on her wedding anniversary and that day would now be ruined for her.

I wish my mum had told her to fuck right off.

IloveBanff · 20/07/2017 13:48

fatowl Shock How incredibly self-absorbed!

NeilTheSloth · 20/07/2017 13:48

Think we've found OPs colleague...user1476869312

neverundersold · 20/07/2017 13:50

At my mums funeral, a family friend told the elderley vicar who had come out of retirement to conduct the service that he needs to learn how to project his voice a bit better and stop mumbling. Funny , no one else had problems hearing him. Some people are just shits.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 20/07/2017 13:54

user1476869312 - When you do or say something nasty loudly and publicly, it becomes everybody's business!

That poor family - losing the husband/father at such a young age - they must be knocked sideways.

Hissy · 20/07/2017 13:56

Tell her to STFU!

She's being crass and disrespectful, she has to know this.

IHateUncleJamie · 20/07/2017 13:56

This is your business how, exactly? The conversation isn't meant for you. Ignore her and get on with your work.

If the conversation "isn't meant for" the OP, perhaps the judgy bigmouth colleague shouldn't be speaking loudly in an open plan office....

RippleEffects · 20/07/2017 13:57

If she went as a representative of the company I'd mention it to line management.

Completely unprofessional and upsetting to colleagues who are also managing their grief.

user1476869312 · 20/07/2017 13:57

Nope, not OP's business. If OP wasn't close enough to the colleague to go to the funeral, she should just get on with whatever she's got to do, and not get her undies in a bundle about 'respect'.

Floggingmolly · 20/07/2017 14:05

I suspect Mouth Almighty is actually on the thread... Hmm

Crunchymum · 20/07/2017 14:06

OP you don't have to sink to your colleagues level but please say something even if it's "Jane, please don't be so disrespectful"

I'd have gone in all guns though.

Who the fuck was she talking to? How did she manage to get all that out and no one told her to shut her filthy mouth????

SchadenfreudePersonified · 20/07/2017 14:07

And if The Gob of the Year was close enough to go to the funeral, then she should be more respectful and considerate.

You ARE the Mouthy Colleague user1476869312, and I claim my £5!

Emmageddon · 20/07/2017 14:10

I would tell her loudly to stop being so fucking disrespectful.

BigSandyBalls2015 · 20/07/2017 14:11

I didn't say anything - although user I do think it is very much my business when she's being so loud and disrespectful about a former colleague in our office.

Everyone sat there a bit gobsmacked and then one bloke asked if he could have a word with her in a conference room. Presume he tore a strip off her as she came back and just sat down, got on with her work.

I'm still stunned, can't believe anyone could be so so nasty and cruel.

OP posts:
IHateUncleJamie · 20/07/2017 14:13

Well if it's not the OP's business then User, why didn't you the goady rude colleague judge the funeral privately instead of in the middle of an open plan room?

Bubbinsmakesthree · 20/07/2017 14:13

Well done that man

KoalaDownUnder · 20/07/2017 14:14

What a loathesome piece of work.

Way to make yourself look shit to all your colleagues.

Hissy · 20/07/2017 14:14

thank god someone did something.

LeakyLittleBoat · 20/07/2017 14:15

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Madonna9 · 20/07/2017 14:15

This is so disrespectful. How did the person she was talking to respond? I'd be gob smacked if someone talked to me about a funeral of my colleague.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 20/07/2017 14:21

She was lucky that the person who gave her a blocking remonstrated with her did it in private. She deserved the public humiliation she was heaping onto the widow.

FuckYouLinda · 20/07/2017 14:26

Buy that colleague that bollocked her out of it a pint.

amusedbush · 20/07/2017 14:27

Well done to him. She sounds vile.

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