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'Jokey remarks... EVERY FUCKING DAY!!!

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Wanderlust1984 · 21/11/2017 13:05

I work for a company where I'm based in a few different locations. I have flexi time so as long as I do my hours, I can pretty much start and finish when I want. I use it to take my DD to school a few times a week, it's a brill perk of the job and really comes in handy. I'm currently on a project where I'm in a shared project office based with a few people who work for our main contractor on this project. They usually start very early, around 6-7am. They're on flexi time too and most of them like the early finish. Also sometimes I'll have meetings elsewhere then head to the project office afterwards.

There's one bloke who comments EVERY FUCKING DAY, regardless of what time I start. Like today, I was in at 7am (not particularly unusual) and when he seen me he dramatically stopped in his tracks, held his hand over his heart and exclaimed "sorry, it's the shock of seeing you before 10am!". Or it's 'good afternoon' if I go in after the school run or a meeting held elsewhere. If I've been working from home for a day (something that's again, in my contract and really handy if I need to just get my head down and get a report finish or the likes. If I tell hi his he sniggers and says 'Yeah, working from home' with inverted commas on the 'working'.

Now I can take a joke, but it's getting to the point I'm losing it with him. My working hours are none of his business, his company are doing work for the company I work for! My line managers trust me an know if never take the piss. I've tried saying things like 'jokes get old ya know' and ignoring him but he then calls me grumpy.

Am I being ultra sensitive or is it ok that I feel like punching him in the nose???

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Thebluedog · 23/11/2017 18:23

I have this all the time. I work from home and have been told by my boss to only go in the office if I need to, (as they have to pay me mileage expenses)

My office is 65 miles away so I leave my house at the time I’d start work and the same when I leave. There’s one colleague that always calls me a part timer. I’ve now started to make a joke about it now, such as ‘I’m off to catch the end of homes under the hammer’ or in the morning when I walk in I just say ‘I had to finish watching Good Morning’ .

He’s a smoker, so I do also comment when he goes out for a fag Grin

His comment get right on my tits but I think he thinks he’s just being funny and I don’t want to go all guns blazing by reporting him to hr or my manager. I have to say that he takes it all in good spirits and it’s become a bit of an ‘in joke’ between us now.

MinisterForMagic · 24/11/2017 19:40

Any new OP?

HelpTheTigers · 04/04/2018 09:07

A friend of mine had this too. She started to carry around a notebook and pen, then whenever the eejet who was harassing her made a moronic comment, she made it very obvious that she was noting down the details, even asking him to check the time for her.

It stopped. Grin

DartmoorDoughnut · 04/04/2018 09:27

Hope you’ve sorted this out and the misogynistic arse has stopped commenting

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