Inappropriate Facebook comments?

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I’ve name changed for this.
Just seen this on my partners Facebook feed; is it inappropriate? The messaging was about a picture of a lovely bathroom (in an old house) with roll top bath posted by a work client that I didn’t think he knew very well....
Client: spent weekend redoing my bathroom
DP: looks lovely with a great view if you’re sitting in the bath. I can imagine my valet arranging my clothes for when I got out!
Client: I’m thinking of putting a cocktail cabinet in the corner :)
DP: let me know when it’s ready for testing out!

Other people had posted comments too and it wasn’t a private message or anything.
Just friendly ‘banter’ or overstepping the mark? Feels a bit yuk to me......and I wouldn’t post anything similar if I commented on someone’s picture.

Not great, not awful. I wouldn't be bothered by this alone.

Your partner sounds a bit overly flirty , inviting himself to test out the clients bath but weird that and I’d feel a bit grossed out by it ( if I was the client) and for you it’s embarrassing .

How long you been together?

Meh.If she tagged him in it then he had to professionally react in some way or look like a flake.

I don't think it was to test out the bath, it was just a general 'somebody mentioned alcohol, I'll be there in a jiffy' kind of comment.

I wouldn't be bothered by that. Seems like banter he could have with a client of either sex.

We’ve been together 8 years and lived together for 3 years. I find social media interactions difficult to judge, that’s why I was asking others views. She’d not tagged him, just put the picture up and it appeared on his feed and he commented I think.

Jesus can he not behave with a bit of class and decorum....yuck indeed 👎🏻🤢

In my eyes the comment should have started and ended with "looks lovely"

The rest of it gives me the ick

I feel disappointed that he commented like that I suppose,

The valet reference is him saying it looks very posh and the alcohol reference is simply that, a drinky reference. Nothing to see here at all...

DP: let me know when it’s ready for testing out!

That is so naff

I think it’s more of an “I’m a big drinker, me” comment than a flirty one about wanting to bathe with her. Daft but harmless.

Do people have work clients on their facebook?

Depends if it was jokingly being envious and likes the idea of relaxing in a nice bath, with nice views and cocktails. And joking about testing that out or if he was flirting and making jokes about having a bath with her.

It's had to get the intention of the comment without knowing the man who made it. My husband would mean the former and is something he's say to a man too. I know my Dad would mean the latter because he'd make sexual innuendos to any woman with a pulse.

It's absolutely fine.

MrDrummer lots and lots of tradeswomen/men and other companies have pages on Facebook and interact with clients on there.

My bil gets a lot of word of people trying to add him after word of mouth recommendations from previous clients too.

I think he was probably being jokey, I just found the comments a bit over familiar I suppose. As I say, I’m not good at interpreting social media interactions!

Honestly ? I think this is OK. He's not suggesting he is in the bath with her . It's a man trying to be jokey with a client .

Social media seems to bring out the worst in a lot of people’s anxieties.

Personally I don't see anything wrong with it. I mean, you can go onto Netflix's twitter account etc and their "joke-y" manner of interacting with subscribers is often praised and seen as being "in touch". Same goes for customer interaction when you open up a support ticket with a firm like Blizzard Activision, for example.

Social media does cause me anxiety, I don’t use it much for social things like this, just to follow groups etc that I’m interested in. I’ll just try to let it go.

Ok, I'm sure it's just friendly banter but it doesn't give a very professional view of him on social media to other prospective clients.

It may be the type of person she was, and it helps his business, but he doesn't really know her and should tone it down.

Also other clients may read the comment literally - cocktails in the bathroom? My gut reaction was jack the lad', not highly professional trades person.

Maybe he needs a training course - social media for work?