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Just Said Yes October 2024

Inviting colleague?

Princess, on March 14, 2024 at 7:16 AM Posted in Family and Relationships 0 9

Hi there, I have been working with this colleague for couple of years. We used to be close before and used to hang out rarely in the past but after sometime I would say we drifted apart and stopped speaking on the phone and texting each other. We are still ok at work and we talk etc but not as close as before where she used to tell me everything that happens in her life. She is also getting married 4 weeks before me and invited me to her wedding but I am having doubts after i have invited her to mine. The reason is I couldnt help but feel something off about her and our closeness at work seems fake etc and my gut feeling says there is something wrong. Dont get me wrong shes nice to me and everything and makes the effort to go to breaks with me but I cannot help but feel negative towards her. I have seen couple of bad traits in her in the past as well. For example, she believes in materialistic stuff, brags about the things she bought, snobby and makes comments about people's accents. She also has a habit of being distant when other people are with us and kind of not talk to me much as if we are not close. Her and my manager are super close and when they are together they talk about all sorts including talking bad about other people. She is a different person around her and i find it hard to be seen when there is the three of us together, they basically talk to each other without even looking at me which is really frustrating and this has happened all the time.

so after thinking of all these, I am thinking of saying my wedding is not going to be local and we are going to do it abroad as she doesnt know I booked the venue. Also my FH is from abroad so I have got a good reason to come up with that excuse. What do you think?

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Latest activity by Jacks, on March 18, 2024 at 11:45 AM
  • Janet
    Expert October 2018
    Janet ·
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    Did you verbally invite her? How is she invited if you haven't even secured a venue?

    Work relationships aren't black and white. It's easy to say if you don't want her there, don't invite her, but work relationships are different sine we spend a majority of our time with co-workers. What is the worst she can do? Show up? And if she is being catty and mean girly already, it may make things worse (Hello having a hostile work place and potential HR). If you work in separate departments and it's easier to cut the "friendship" start backing off. What I would do, is just follow through instead of making up excuses to try and get here to stay away. Let her make the decision to attend, she may not go.


    Side note. Liking materialistic things and bragging about purchases aren't necessarily bad traits. People enjoy what they like and some save up up for a while to buy certain things. If she's all look what I have and you don't, then yeah, she's a snob.

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  • Jacks
    Rockstar November 2054
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    If you've invited her, even verbally, it would be really rude to take that back. If you do, you'll still have to see this person every day at work, which will be awkward. You don't have to go to her wedding, but I would follow through and invite her to yours. You'll barely notice she's there, if she even decides to go.

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    Princess ·
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    I just said she is invited for the wedding and I didn't tell her that I'm still looking for venue as its far ahead. We work in the same office so its hard to ignore her and to start to back off. I have no idea of how not to make her not come.
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  • Andrea
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    You said you’re having second thoughts after inviting her. If you invited her, she’s invited. You need something major to justify uninviting someone, not just growing apart.
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  • LM
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    I do not recommend creating a lie about a destination wedding. Lies always come out and you risk looking "suspect" in your professional setting. You will have to learn to handle different personality types in the workplace eventually, even mean girls and gossips.
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    Update- I had a meeting with my manager this morning and she asked me if I am getting married in the month discussed etc and then she asked if my fiance lives in 'x' I was taken back as I have not told her this and the only person who knows this is the colleague in question. That made me think how many things she has told my manager, clearly they have been talking about me and it made me feel what else they have been saying? I dont like when people tell other people my business unless I personally told them! Then she was talking about her weekend and bragging about the new car her brother has to show off, which she has been doing most of the time whenever we hang out, she bags a lot always says places stink when they are not making herself like a royal or something. I have been thinking I definitely dont want this kind of person on my wedding and going to say the wedding is going to be in my home country which is far away from here, then she wont be there on my special day.

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  • Jacks
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    Well that lie will likely come back to bite you when she looks at the social media of your guests. That will make you look shady at work.

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    I'm not inviting anyone else from the office and she doesn't know any of my other friends or family.
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  • Jacks
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    Your mind seems made up, so I'm not sure what any of us are going to be able to say.

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