She said something like " I ran the Hobbyland Marathon!!!".
And without blinking, I immediately asked "how fast?".
She furrowed her brow at me and just walked away. Later she told me that I "stole her win" from her. This was about a month ago and she's still pissed about it.
Write the date on your calendar. Add 30 days. Write "Reminder: Don't talk to _____ for a couple days"
Correct. Today in America the correct response is to shower this person with praise as if she actually won the marathon. We must all celebrate banal mediocrity.
Grindstone!!!!! Put your butt to the grindstone and you too may make something of yourself. Believe!!!!! Believe in yourself. You are more than just a midget in a turd field. You matter to this great big blue marble world!!!! ARE YOU MOTIVATED YET????????
If this story is real you would have gone online and found out her finish time.
It's more polite to ask in person.
I know zoomers just LOVE do everything online and ask chadBotAlphaMF everything, but I still believe in a little thing call face-to-face communication.
I meant after you asked and she didn't answer you would have just checked for yourself and had that time to go along with your story. If it were true that is.
If she used the words ‘I ran…’ and not something like ‘I completed’ or ‘I participated’ then you are completely in the right to ask her. Whether her running pace is 6 min per mile or 14, doesn’t matter because she defined as running.
Hmm…Seems like an overreaction to me. I understand a first timer wanting to just finish and not focus on time. But you didn’t steal anything from her.
If she told you her time and you told her it was no good, I could see her being mad, rightfully so. But you’re a runner, she’s a runner. It’s not crazy to ask what someone’s time was in a race. Especially since you can just look it up online.
True but there are many who feel finishing a marathon is like winning an Olympic gold medal to them. People really make a big huge stink out of it. I mean like people who walk 6 hour marathon. Maybe it is a huge deal to them and the OP unintentionally popped her bubble. And don't forget young people these days. They're such a sensitive snowflakes. Anything they do have to receive the greatest cheer and the likes.
I wouldn’t worry about it… not as bad as the guy who went and took his coworkers Strava KOM the next day after he heard him bragging about it. That was a good thread. 🤣
She said something like " I ran the Hobbyland Marathon!!!".
And without blinking, I immediately asked "how fast?".
She furrowed her brow at me and just walked away. Later she told me that I "stole her win" from her. This was about a month ago and she's still pissed about it.
Let's be clear here. The elephant in the room is that she's your co-worker. Co-Worker. Co-WoRkEr.
You have to work. Which says it all.
If you were good enough to ask that question, you'd be talking to your paid pacers.
In the parking lot this morning, I noticed that she had removed her 26.2 bumper sticker from her car. I could still see traces of the sticker as she didn't do a very professional job in its removal. It's almost as if the sticker might have been removed in a fit of rage.
I don't know, seems like a sore subject. I'll bring it up to her this afternoon at the interdisciplinary company productivity meeting.