oh man, i've got a good one.
there's a secretary at my work, who answers phone calls and welcomes guests. the usual stuff. she's the kind of person who is very touchy. if she walks past you, she'll hold your shoulder while passing. when you come in to work, she'll call you honey. stuff like that. and she does this with everyone.
well one day, my boss and i were talking. and i mentioned how she was extra touchy today. he looked at me and asked if i was uncomfortable with it. i looked at him with a puzzled look, and started laughing and said well obviously not. he told me to not hesitate to let him know if i ever do feel that way. so i'm like, yeah sure whatever, with a smile on my face.
i go on vacation the following week, and when i come back, everyone at work is acting strange. everyone is giving me the cold shoulder. people who used to come up to me to ask how i'm doing weren't doing that. i was mean-mugged by a few people. and the secretary came up to me and asked if we were cool. and i'm like yeah of course. i was like what the fuck just happened.
so i go up to my boss and tell him what has been happening to me. he tells me that he went to h.r. about what i had told him. so i become livid and ask him why the hell he did that. he tells me that he has to report any kind of sexual harassment incidents that he hears of. so i go to the h.r. manager's office and ask to speak to her. she sees how upset i am, so she asks the person she was talking to, to leave. she does. once that door closes, i tell her how upset i am that my boss went behind my back to not only report something i did not intend on having reported, but that it happened while i was on vacation, where i wasn't able to defend myself. my h.r. manager tried to make it seem like no one was actually feeling this way, but i told her that was bullshit. they were afraid that i was going to sue!!! i was like what the fuck??!!1! why the hell would i sue when i wasn't even offended to begin with??? so after getting this all sorted out, the h.r. manager had a long meeting with my boss, and everything eventually became sorted out.
the people who were dogging me tried to apologize, but i was still so damn upset, that i took off and left early from work that day. the next day, the secretary came up to me and told me that she was not only relieved, but that she was happier that i never felt uncomfortable with her. i told her that it was a whole gigantic misunderstanding, and that i had never felt that way to begin with.
things are cool now, but for a long while, there were a lot of people there i hated. my boss and i don't talk about the secretary much anymore lol.