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writes:I hope this is not confusing. David, Diana, Melane, and several other people work together. David attitude towards Diana is very bad after several years of knowing her. Recently, he has been forming friendships with all her close friends, especially the ones that are always talking about her. He use to shun these people, but has been assigning them certain privileged projects that he use to want Diana to be involved in. Several other friends are surprised and wondering why he is suddenly getting familiar with them. Melane and a few other girls have become really close to David. He seems to show them more preference, although Melane is fairly new. In one situation, Diana and Melane are sitting behind David. But Melane sits in another isle of chairs to the right of them. David usually chats a lot with Melane. However, some people have been saying that it seems he uses her to supply materials for projects. She seems desperate for his attention at times. On this occasion, they are all sitting in a meeting listening to someone giving a presentation. Rather than sitting forward as everyone else, David is turned sideways with his elbow/arm on top of the empty chair next to him. This chair is directly in front of Diana, whom he was not aware was behind him at first. She came late to the meeting. His body is slanted towards the chair beside him; Melane is able to see his face, but not Diana. His back is now turned towards her. The strange thing is that, when he is aware of Diana's presence, he suddenly straightens up and keeps turning to look sideways in her direction. His countenance changed as if he is sad about something. Rather than paying attention ahead, he keeps turning his head to the side where Diana could see his face. For several minutes he does this back and forth. Could something be strange about David's behavior? Sorry if this sounds minute, but I would like your opinion. {Melane is way older than Diana, who seemed obsessed with Diana (acting too close to her. Diana broke friendship with her. she even seemed flirty with David at times}
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reader, anonymous, writes (10 January 2012): Yes, something is strange here. Seems like this group of people thinks they are in high school rather than at work!
ALL of them need to get focused on doing the jobs they are being paid to do.
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reader, anonymous, writes (8 January 2012): This is verified as being by the original poster of the questionThis is not a workplace situation. I am apart of this. we are all friends for many years.
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reader, crummyscreenname  +, writes (8 January 2012):
confusng. office politics are confusing. Who knows what's going on with this guy? It could be some pecking order thing where he's conciously or subconciously trying to knock her down a couple rungs by taking over her friends. It could be that he feels bad about treating her and hher friends badly and is not sure how to work his way out of it. It could be that there's a promotion on the line that both he and Diana are up for. It could be that he's in love with Diana. Who knows.
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