I wasn't invited to my coworker's house warming party

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Everyone in my office was invited except me. I live 30 miles away so really I couldn't have made it, but I would've bought him a house warming gift. He said he'd invite me, but I only knew he had the party just this weekend as everyone in the office is talking about it now and I can't join in as in the end I wasn't invited. I feel so embarrassed. He has the day off today. I feel rejected and left out. Am I being too sensitive? The others live nearer him (so maybe they could have made it there better than me) and one lives far away from him like I do, but he still he got invited 🤔

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Thats not how bulling works - it doesn't stay in primary school unfortunately.

Bullying can take all types of situations, this is very blatant as the bully knows they have left out one person and they have done it deliberately.

Of course people are free to socialise outside of work - this is not a simple case of doing so its deliberately leaving one person out of that situation.

So which is it, then? A socially-clumsy man who forgets to give someone an invitation when he’d planned to, is confronted on his return to the office by an obviously mutinous colleague saying ‘I didn’t get an invitation. I was the only one not invited’ as he’s offering round chocolates, and makes a a flimsy excuse about her not liking the food to save face? And now she’s so obviously pissed off and showing it, he doesn’t want to approach her with Indian sweets that remind them both of the missed party altercation?

Or a cold-hearted Machiavellian delighting in singling out a ‘good soul’ colleague with whom he appears to have had a previously benign relationship to torment by dangling a non-forthcoming party invitation in front of her, and who is now continuing his campaign of exclusion by ostentatiously not offering her sweets?

I can tell you which sounds more likely to me.

@user1471867483 or he waited as he knew he was leaving out OP … we’ll never know for sure but seems pre-meditated!