Why would a coworker be bothered by an employee’s decision to secure her personal belongings? Why would he become so fixated on it?
The only reason I can think of is that he wanted access to her stuff. It doesn’t prove that he personally took anything, but it is weird. It shows a lack of respect for a reasonable workplace boundary. This retail employee is new; she doesn’t know the people working there in the pet store, so why wouldn’t she take some privacy measures? And most importantly, why wouldn’t she lock her locker? I mean, that’s actually the reason why lockers exist. To lock your stuff.
This coworker’s reaction actually proves why protection is necessary. Trust works in both directions. Adding a lock just ensures no one can access them without permission, and coworkers who respect that expectation have no reason to feel accused. Employees must be able to expect that their belongings will remain untouched, and our friend here is not actually helping with those strange comments.
The worst part of it all is that no one else seemed bothered by this decision. Just him, a 30-year-old man who seemed personally offended by her new precaution and began making public comments about it, suggesting that using a lock meant she considered her coworkers thieves. And he didn’t keep things private; he brought the issue up in front of other employees on purpose and mentioned it while they were working on the store floor.
Well… the truth is she had to put a lock because she found out another coworker had used her perfume without her knowing. So, rather than making a big deal out of it, which she could have done but she didn’t, she just began locking her locker. So she had a good reason, and now this man has given her another good reason to keep securing her personal belongings.
Author: Kayitsi.com
