I have the ick from a colleague and it makes me feel bad because the person is lovely!
She lives at home, she’s mid thirties but that’s not the ick, it’s that she is the classic, lives at home so acts like a teenager. She talks about how she has arguments with her siblings but they sounds so ridiculous! Or about how she ‘went to her room’ to get away, the idea of an adult only having ‘their room’ just feels a bit childish and gives me the ick.
Lack of independence and ambition icks me out, so the way she talks about only being with her family and having nothing outside of that makes me see her as a child. She gets up on the weekend and sits on the sofa with her family, then they go out as a family, she comes home and relaxes with them. She only holidays with family and one of her siblings has a few kids and she is very very involved in this part of the family, to the point where it’s like she has nothing going on of her own, going to school pick up and admits pushing into conversations her sister has with the staff if she doesn’t like what’s being said. She isn’t interested in friends and even refuses to do anything with the colleagues when we have anything going on. It just feels like there is a teenager in the office. Sorry that’s long and sorry if it offends anyone, I needed to get it out! I recognise I’m being unfair so can’t say this to anyone as it is so mean!