Colleague kisses

[sandybuns]

So my DH was showing me something on his work laptop yesterday and before he brought up the page he happened to be on a teams chat. I caught the name on it as one of the women he works with. He's only worked there since December so not a really long period of time, so not established long term work relationships.

It was pretty quick but I saw that after each message she would end it with a 'x'. DH responses that I saw had no x at the end but I've been thinking about this overnight... is this the normal done thing? Do fairly new work colleagues put a kiss or kisses at the end of messages? Doesn't seem very professional to me and I certainly don't do it with any blokes at my work.

Is this just a friendly thing or a way to initiate a work flirt?

I think most of the time it's just to express being friendly, in my work men and women and even bosses send a kiss to each other. we even go as far as hearting a WhatsApp message sometimes.

Loads of people do it, often without thought as they're so used to doing it via text. I wouldn't overthink this at all. You do, however, sound a bit insecure. Is there history?

Thanks both, it's just not normal in the organisation I work for.

Not overly insecure, just found it unusual as it's not something I've ever seen or done. He wasn't hiding it so I didn't think there was anything to worry about but it is good to know that it's seen as a friendly gesture.

Some people just put 'x' on the end of messages.... Lots of people I work with do this, I think it's habit

Me ending a call to my boss with 'love you, byeeeee' falls under the same heading IMO 🤦🏻‍♀️

Loads of people do. One x is pretty platonic anyway and he hasn’t reciprocated. If there were xxxxxxxs and soppy messages you might have grounds for concern, but not here.

I work in a large organisation set across different counties.
My site colleagues put x or smiley faces.
Colleagues at other sites do not as I'm not friendly with them.
It really depends how friendly that person is who is sending the message.
Nothing to worry about.

I put an absolute crap tonne of smileys on messages so they don't come across as harsh text 😂 I've got several colleagues who put an 'x' out of habit. I don't respond with an 'x' like your husband!

I once inadvertently did this to my sons form tutor!!!

Worse he was a real hottie too.
Very embarrassing.

Sure it's nothing op

I would never intentionally do this on a male colleague's messages. Me and some of my female colleagues do but I'd class them as friends and I wouldn't do it on any emails that are for professional purposes.

I have once or twice put an x on a WhatsApp to my male colleague out of habit but immediately apologized and said so because I respect his wife!

I did that once too. Seriously died inside. They couldn’t stop laughing. Think I made their day. It’s just something you get used to saying to end a call if you speak to loved ones regularly by phone, but still😳🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️