To be embarrassed my colleague announced my coat size to whole office

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Bit embarrassing … or am I being over sensitive?

Your colleague is a bitch and clearly said it to be a bitch. I would be mortified too. Does anyone in your workplace actually like her? She sounds like the sort of sad sack who makes wildly inappropriate comments in a desperate attempt to be ‘funny’.

Could be worse OP, I was at work the other week and a colleague commented on the dress that I was wearing and saying how nice she thought I looked in iit and how much she liked it , where was it from .. I duly answered only for one of my other colleagues to say very loudly " really I thought they only went up to a 22 ".... xx

She is a dick, no excuses, she said it to be a dick.
No other reason.

OP, we don’t need any context - that is a massive overstep! How dare they. I’d bring it up with them - or if you don’t feel you can, then their manager, especially if they have form for “putting their foot in it”. They sound like a walking HR nightmare. It’s not good enough.

Canada here. Same sizing at the States. Yes, 14 is a bit large.

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😱 What a bitch! Why, just why do these women feel the need to revert back to high school 'mean girls?' I would tell her the 90s (or insert correct/slightly wrong decade) are calling, and they want her back. Then "really, wow, I didn't realise you were in your 50s, I was a decade out, and I'm usually so good at guessing ages!" 😂

A UK 14 is a US 18.

You clearly work in the same office as the OP, unbelievable comments 😳
Sorry that was to

@BeaLola

It’s the other way around, actually.

eg a US 6 is a UK 10, a US 10 is a UK 14, a US 14 is a UK 18.

Isn’t it the other way round? A US 14 equates to a UK 18, I thought.

Yes, the UK are two sizes larger than America. A size 4-6 US, is size 8-10 here.

Context needed. Was it sneery or a critical comment?

A comment like that could only be used to humiliate/shame op I would have thought.

Are you sure that was your coat size, OP, and not your colleague's IQ?

Regardless UK 14 still large.

Evidently, it's very low (an audible knock on your desk may have been appropriate at that moment op).

So a US 10 you're saying is large than. Is BMI included in your opinion?

For the most part yes. Because I’m aware there is the very rare exception of bodybuilders but let’s be honest that’s rare.

Well height makes a different as well obviously. It's certainly not plus size, more of a medium.

Anyway why are you fixated with a UK 14?

@WearyAuldWumman btw tried to tag you on our calm little friendly thread, but don't think it worked.

Didn't it all begin with the mention of the tall, skinny person who had to wear a size 14 coat because of her unusually large (but hidden) pelvis?

Oh thank you. What's the name of the thread? Maybe I missed it.

That was what would come out of my mouth. "I might be fat, but I can lose weight. You'll always be an asshole/bitch/twat waffle/idiot."

Not really unless you’ve cleared 6 foot.

Someone else made a reference to a size 14. I replied. Everyone else got offended.