Has a co-worker ever shared TMI with you

[Swan4Me]

And you wished you didnt know it?

How did you deal with it later?


This week a coworker told me he was broke and had a negative bank balance-the day after payday.
I suggested his wife go back to her coffee shop job-after he told me she decided to take the summer off (they are young-no kids-but only one car)
Then 2 days later-he took the afternoon off to do research on his new "night job" - writing articles for an online blog thing??????

 

[Uncle Remus]

And you wished you didnt know it?

How did you deal with it later?


This week a coworker told me he was broke and had a negative bank balance-the day after payday.
I suggested his wife go back to her coffee shop job-after he told me she decided to take the summer off (they are young-no kids-but only one car)
Then 2 days later-he took the afternoon off to do research on his new "night job" - writing articles for an online blog thing??????

What do you care?

 

[DebbieB]

And you wished you didnt know it?

How did you deal with it later?


This week a coworker told me he was broke and had a negative bank balance-the day after payday.
I suggested his wife go back to her coffee shop job-after he told me she decided to take the summer off (they are young-no kids-but only one car)
Then 2 days later-he took the afternoon off to do research on his new "night job" - writing articles for an online blog thing??????

What do you have to deal with?

 

[topolino]

A working class family is broke? that isn't too much information these days, it's all too common information.

 

[Goofyluver]

You and I must have different definitions of TMI.

See, to me, TMI means over-sharing about your sex life, or telling me about your colon health and flatulence issues, or how your hubby likes you to call him Harry Potter just for fun. THAT is TMI.

Maybe he was trying to vent...which is all too common in today's economy. And that's understandable.

 

[MickeySP]

Frankly if he starts with I have no money - poor me - walkaway. Don't want to hear it when working class people who bust their butts working overtime/2 jobs/both parents work - his "problem" is null & void.

As far as I was concerned self inflicted drama is not real drama.

 

[curious3069]

Hm. Your TMI co-worker is way different than my TMI co-worker. Mine has no problem telling ANY co-worker that her grown daughter was born without a ****** and how she had to enlighten her daughter's suitors as to how things "work". Yeah, she's an over-sharer about everything.

 

[mpls_mm]

My husband just shared his TMI story from our new employee. He thinks brushing your teeth more than once a week "ruins" them and showering more than twice a week in unnecessary. He really wishes he would have shared his TMI BEFORE I booked them a room together for a month on an extended project, outside, in a heat wave. My husband is having trouble even riding to the job site with him.

 

[2girls4me]

The girls in my department have discussed bikini waxes. That is tmi, IMO, not financial issues.

 

[Minnesota!]

I don't consider that TMI. At my job, my first week, my coworker told me that she had had quite a few abortions back in the day. That is TMI.

Same coworker continues to share - she LITERALLY messed herself a few months ago and came to the area to share the story with us all before going home to change. that is TMI.

 

[tvguy]

All the time, usually when they call in sick. Under privacy laws, all they have to do is call in and say they are sick today. Whoever takes the call puts out an e-mail to the staff and that e-mail can say no more than they are sick. Anymore information, even if they provided it when they called in, is a violation of privacy law.

But yes, people do tend to give our TMI. I had one co-worker tell me as she was going out the door that she was tired and dreading going home because she and her husband had an "appointment" to make whoopie. Frankly, as a parent, I fully understand the appointment part, but don't tell ME about it.

 

[Luv Bunnies]

The mom of a preschooler in my class told me the child was a "oops baby" and she wished she'd never had him. The child had learning disabilities and health problems. She already had two boys and said she wanted a girl, but not a third boy. She went on to tell me, in graphic detail, how her husband assured her he wouldn't get her pregnant, despite her not being on birth control. We were on a field trip to a mall to look at the decoration and see Santa, so it was hard for me to get away from her for very long. That, in my opinion, was TMI!!!!! Made me feel really bad for the poor kid....

 

[Disney Doll]

And you wished you didnt know it?

How did you deal with it later?


This week a coworker told me he was broke and had a negative bank balance-the day after payday.
I suggested his wife go back to her coffee shop job-after he told me she decided to take the summer off (they are young-no kids-but only one car)
Then 2 days later-he took the afternoon off to do research on his new "night job" - writing articles for an online blog thing??????

I think the TMI part here is having a wife who is capable of working and isn't, and then complaining about one's financial situation.

Maybe not TMI per se, but something annoying that I wouldn't want to know about my co-worker.

DH's sister just got fired for insubordination (totally warranted based on what she did). Now we have to listen to "I have no money". Well, of course you have no money. You have never saved money, your husband is disabled and does occasional work like driving someone to the airport, you have lived paycheck to paycheck all your life, apparently thought you were irreplacable at your job and got yourself fired and have spent the last 2 weeks since you got fired interviewing for jobs, going out to lunch and dinner and furniture shopping so you can spend money that you don't have.

And in one sense, it IS TMI, because I don't want to hear it because it aggravates me to think that DH & I bust our butts working while she's out livin' la vida loca with no money. And at some point we will probably have to give her money so they don't end up homeless and I will be aggravated.

 

[Swan4Me]

What do you care?

I really felt he was trying to borrow money from me

 

[Uncle Remus]

I really felt he was trying to borrow money from me

That's when ya tell him ya don't care that he's broke.

 

[Aisling]

You and I must have different definitions of TMI.

See, to me, TMI means over-sharing about your sex life, or telling me about your colon health and flatulence issues, or how your hubby likes you to call him Harry Potter just for fun. THAT is TMI.

Yeah, I was looking for the juicy stuff, not negative bank balances! Colon health!

 

[Aisling]

Same coworker continues to share - she LITERALLY messed herself a few months ago and came to the area to share the story with us all before going home to change. that is TMI.

That reminds me, my dog park acquaintance told me she squatted and pooped in the park one night when she really had to go. She's a little off, though, so I shouldn't be making fun of her.

 

[Owl's Friend]

On older lady I worked with at the peds office told me she pooped her pants at work. Not having spare clothes, she threw away her soiled undies and was commando. I never looked at her the same way again. I didn't think she was capable of the work we did (asked way too many questions after doing the same job for 10+ yrs you would know). Somehow she kept working for another 10 yrs before she retired.

 

[YodaGirl]

You and I must have different definitions of TMI.

See, to me, TMI means over-sharing about your sex life, or telling me about your colon health and flatulence issues, or how your hubby likes you to call him Harry Potter just for fun. THAT is TMI.

Maybe he was trying to vent...which is all too common in today's economy. And that's understandable.

My husband just shared his TMI story from our new employee. He thinks brushing your teeth more than once a week "ruins" them and showering more than twice a week in unnecessary. He really wishes he would have shared his TMI BEFORE I booked them a room together for a month on an extended project, outside, in a heat wave. My husband is having trouble even riding to the job site with him.

The mom of a preschooler in my class told me the child was a "oops baby" and she wished she'd never had him. The child had learning disabilities and health problems. She already had two boys and said she wanted a girl, but not a third boy. She went on to tell me, in graphic detail, how her husband assured her he wouldn't get her pregnant, despite her not being on birth control. We were on a field trip to a mall to look at the decoration and see Santa, so it was hard for me to get away from her for very long. That, in my opinion, was TMI!!!!! Made me feel really bad for the poor kid....

That's so sad! Definitely feel sorry for the little boy.

Although, as a teacher, it may not be TMI. It definitely gives you insight into the little boy's home environment.

As a preschool teacher, myself, I could definitely see the benefit for having that information on a student. After all, if the mom was brazen enough to tell the teacher, it has to be apparent at home - to the siblings as well as the little boy.

 

[hereyago]

I've had a couple:

A boss I had and thankfully she was fired later: I walk in on a conversation she is having with a couple co workers, her boyfriend was also there working there and he was sititng there and she proceeded to tell us what she did sexually and wouldn't do I was like ok and walked out.

Then there was my boss who replaced this boss: her boyfriend worked there with us and I liked them both, however, she was also a little bit too revealing of their outside of work antics or if they got into an argument at home they would bring it to work, very uncomfortable.