I’ve been in the learning department as a trainer a couple months now. Right now I’m dealing with a coworker who I used to get along well with, and suddenly, like a switch she’s been giving me the cold shoulder and silent treatment. I’m not saying we have to be friends and she doesn’t even have to like me, but I haven’t done anything and we need to be able to communicate and collaborate because we basically stand right next to each other. It’s been very draining and weird.
The only thing I can think of is that I’ve been performing well and there’s a coordinator position open soon, which my manager recommended I pursue. I know she is also interested so maybe she is silently competing or considers me a threat? Either way, I don’t really care about all that and just wanna get along with everyone and work.
I was thinking about confronting her directly just asking what the barrier is, but I feel it’s risky and don’t want to feed into it. So for now I’m just not even putting in the effort to say hello just so I can be ignored.
Second, there’s a guy that was hired into our department that has been sort of difficult and has boundary issues with others, and today I saw him looking up an associate on Facebook (female) that had been up at the desk. This incident mixed with some of the perverted things he’s said to me make me feel ill. It happened fast and I didn’t get a good enough look at who he was looking at (name etc), but I feel like I should talk about these things with my manager.
But I don’t want to put my own credibility on the line and get involved in bullshit.