Coworker Gave My Personal Cell to Contractor

[Anonymous]

How did this cause you to ignore your wife's birthday? You never answered the calls? And after the texts you blocked him. You sound like an idiot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't envy the boss in this scenario. The 30 yo woman sounds hysterical, the OP is incredibly punitive and operates on a hair trigger, and the contractor is a harassing moron.

Idiots all around. What an office.

Amen

[Anonymous]

She tried to get you fired with the “not a team player” comment to your boss. Any chance you get stick it to her. Totally appropriate to try to get her fired.

[Anonymous]

Fire her. This is completely unprofessional and the fact that she turned around and blamed you...she's bad news.

[Anonymous]

I would see if there is something in the handbook about disclosing others' personal information as if so this would be a clear violation.

[Anonymous]

You don’t sound like a team player. You should’ve just called him back or alerted the first time and been done with it.

[Anonymous]

Do you have a work cell or desk phone? At my office we just our personal phone.

[Anonymous]

If I was the big boss and both of you came to me with this, I’d fire you both. Too much drama.

[Anonymous]

You should have answered the call the first time and shut it down. Then contractor would not have continued to call all weekend.

[Anonymous]

How much do you make?

I make enough that my cell is on my email and they can call me whenever they want.

[Anonymous]

I would have been on your side if you didn't sound like such a drama llama. Oh no! The phone rang during my wife's birthday! And during a baseball game! And during mass! We get it. Like the majority of people on DCUM, you have things to do on the weekend. Your wife wasn't at chemo. Your kid wasn't in the hospital. Stop being such a drama queen.

You sound like you work for the government, no? Lots of people on this board work on the weekends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you would try to get her fired over this maybe you aren’t a team player?

Oh, you work 7 days a week? Take calls during church? Ignore your wife's birthday and you son's at bats? You sound like a great husband and father.

You sound like a jerk. Ignored your wife's birthday? Took calls at church? Missed your kids at bats? Yeah right. You didn't even answer the calls. If your kid was at bat you should have let the phone ring without checking the caller ID. Don't know why you would have your phone on at Church. You're over exaggerating

NP. There’s now a free Bible app that lets you take the Bible anywhere. It’s has multiple translations, it reads the text to you ( not during service!), and has other features. Many people now pull their phones out during services if they’ve forgotten their Bible, or simply prefer the digital version.

[Anonymous]

OP, I would defend yourself, but not ask for her to be fired. That’s a bad look. Ask what can be done to prevent this situation in the future.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I was the big boss and both of you came to me with this, I’d fire you both. Too much drama.

+1 Red flags for both of you

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And he called me 14 times over the weekend without leaving a voicemail. I thought it was spam because he wasn't in my contacts and I don't take work calls on the weekend even if I did know.

He eventually texted me 3 huge multi-paragraphs texts on Sunday asking about his bid, other potential bids, how great he is etc. So, I blocked him.

Contractor reaches out to the coworker that gave him my number and asks whats up. She comes over to me today and asks why I'm 'ignoring' him. I ask her if she the one who gave him my personal cell and she says yes.

I tell her not to ever do that again as the guy interrupted my wife's birthday, my son's double header baseball game, my Mass on Sunday and just my general peace on the weekend.

She turns around and tells our boss that I'm not a team player.

She is 30, single, no kids, no pets, no hobbies, no nothing.
I have the clout to demand her firing.

Would you give this moron a second chance or do I teach her a life lesson?

How’d you get a job working with people?