A co worker of mine and I are friendly, I would call us ‘work friends’. Last year she was working on a course that was very difficult. I was as supportive as possible, listened (endlessly) to all the trials and tribulations regarding passing this course, genuinely encouraging, etc.
A year later and she passed the course, we were all very happy for her, in private I gave her a small congratulations gift and told her we were all proud of her. She told me, “I hope you can be there to see me get my award”, to which I responded I would be happy to. Two weeks ago she told me the ceremony was last week, but she only got 10 tickets to the event, but that she was going to have a party afterward to celebrate with those that couldn’t attend. I said, “I totally get it, all is fine”.
This week I get to work, asked her how the ceremony was, she told me it was awesome - and so was the party a few days later! I totally get that maybe numbers were tight and someone had to be cut from the guest list. But she kept mentioning it! On four or five different times yesterday she mentioned about the gifts she received, how they borrowed equipment from work for the party they had to return, how her presentation went very well, etc.
AIBU or was this just strange behavior? Did she want me to ask her why I wasn’t invited? If not, then why did she keep mentioning it?!
In the end I just brushed it off with her and didn’t bring it up. I’m not sure if any other co workers were invited or not - our boss was because privately I asked her and she said she was but hadn’t attended - I didn’t ask anyone else. I’m honestly not really bothered to not have gone, just baffled I guess!
Was this strange behavior? I must put it out there, this isn’t the first experience I’ve had with flaky behavior from her. This kind of took the cake though!