AIBU to find constant hugging and saying ‘I love you’ unprofessional? (At work)

[theodextrey]

I work with this woman who is quite extroverted she enjoys hugging everyone daily (usually full frontal) and will say “I love you” to coworkers.

These people aren’t anyone she’s known a long time, I’ve worked there longer than her & she does this with almost everyone including new hires.

I am more introverted/quiet so these interactions make me feel kinda strange. To me, I only say I love you to people I am close to so I don’t understand it (I am on the spectrum)

We will be on group email or text and she will sign off “I love you!!! 🩷🩷🩷”

i know people are different but to me this seems inappropriate for the workplace (corporate) and makes me feel uncomfortable.
this woman will also disappear frequently throughout the day while she’s stopping and chatting with people (usually small talk that goes on too long)

is this unprofessional or am I being unreasonable?

I also want to add it makes me uncomfortable because if I’m standing there (we work on a team of two) while she’s hugging the coworkers, they then try to hug me, which I’m not a fan of, but it would make me seem cold in contrast to her for me to not participate.

That makes me feel better as I kept questioning myself.

Many people would feel the same. I would cringe!

It adds up and takes time away from tasks getting done and work completed on time which is quite frustrating.

If we weren’t on a team of two I would not care, but it does impede on the workload

The I love you is unprofessional.

The hugging, maybe not.

I have a very huggy boss, not every day but if she hasn’t seen someone for a while.

She never does it with me because I made it pretty clear I don’t want to early on. We have a perfectly fine relationship, friendly, just no hugs!

God I can only imagine my face if someone was to do this to me.

Do you work in TV lol

Ah well that is different if it affects workload. Complain to your manager.

Weird. Unprofessional. And fake af

This would not bother me at all. All people are different and I try to accept people for who they are. It doesn’t sound like she is a bad person just annoying (to you). Her manager can see how she is, if her manager considers that she is not working enough then it’s their responsibility to raise it, not yours. Everywhere you work some people will work harder than others, you just have to accept it and concentrate on your own work.

We had one like this at work...I put a stop to it with me immediately. She tried to go in for a big, I blocked her a d stepped back. She kind of pouted and said "awww, flower, but I'm a hugger!"

And I said "well I'm not. Don't try to hug me again".

She never did. She did it to everyone else instead.