Leaving my office in 10 days and the HR politics is becoming unbearable
I have only one close friend in my office, a male coworker. We genuinely get along well and talk a lot during work. Somehow our HR got weirdly obsessed with it.
First she complained to higher management that we talk too much. Then she started manipulating both of us separately by saying things like “he talks behind your back” and vice versa.
Now I’m leaving the company in 10 days, and suddenly she made him shift seats far away from me because apparently “too many people were sitting together.” Funny how it was never an issue before.
And now she’s trying to push him toward my replacement/new joinee every single day like she’s directing some office love triangle 😭
The funniest part? There was never anything romantic between us. But HR has somehow created an entire storyline in her head.
Office politics really gets weirder when people can’t stand seeing genuine friendships at work.