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Subject:RE: Coworker who won't take no for an answer From:"Downing, David" <DavidDowning -at- Users -dot- com> To:<techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:05:07 -0400
From: "Blount, Patricia A" <Patricia -dot- Blount -at- ca -dot- com>
Subject: Coworker who won't take no for an answer
Since the start of this project, he's suggested - more than once - that
I should bring my teenage sons to his favorite Saturday afternoon haunt,
a local hobby shop. At the risk of sounding full of myself, it is
embarrassingly obvious to me and to all of my cubicle neighbors that he
has a crush.
My sons have zero interest in this particular hobby and even if my boys
enjoyed the activity, we would NOT attend for that reason alone. I am
doing my best to discourage his attentions.
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Why not just cut right to the heart of the matter and tell him you know
how he feels about you and that alas, the feeling isn't mutual? I've
been the guy in this position and I'd rather someone just be straight
with me and tell me the simple truth than make excuses.
(However, knowing that women are reluctant to do that, I have adopted
the rule of three. If someone turns me down three times in a row, I stop
asking.)
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