Hi fives and the occasional hug is about as physical as it gets at my work.

Last month I got stomped on by a coworker. My foot isn’t 100% yet. I still brushed their hair at the end of the day. Some of my coworkers are horses.

Absoluetly zero, it has litterarly never happened to me or anyone I know, I know it has happend at a place of work I worked at earlier, but it was dealt with swiftly and correctly.

Why did you throw a water bottle at a coworker?

OP do you work in a physical job? Warehouse, construction, military, something like that? These are the only types of environments where I remember this being weirdly normal.

Everywhere else it’s an easy way to lose your job and/or catch a charge.

One wanted to kidnap me but that’s it.

Never, I never got slapped at work, and I also never threw a bottle of water at anyone’s face at work, violence begets violence. Either of these sounds like something I would go to HR to complain about.

Never

My workplace can be a bit juvenile like this, but we all understand the key rule. No means fucking no. Sometimes the shenanigans start and someone says “Not today, I’m not in the fuckin mood” and its respected. Some people are shenanigans free zones, you leave those people the fuck alone.

But like you said, you threw a bottle of water at someones face… this shit always gets out of hand, it ALWAYS escalates. You have to remove yourself from the inappropriate behavior chain 100% and make it clear to people that want to persist that you are over it and it needs to stop, if they do it again straight up tell them thats the last time or you go to management and start naming names and demanding they do something.

Sometimes a workplace that is “inappropriate” is fun, not having to be some rigid corporate drone who never speaks unless its in some sanitised language. Sometimes its not.

One coworker poked me violently with his finger once. I told him, if he did that again I would mess him up. It never happened again. (I changed company after about one year for different reasons tho.)

I’ve also had coworkers pat my back and female coworkers touch my arm or sit in my lap, which is okay for me if done in kindness. It’s not okay for everyone, but women seem to know when it’s okay.

Say psych, right now

I’m literally in the middle of performing an investigation into allegations of sexual harassment and inappropriate physical contact at my work. If half of my co-workers or employees were hitting or slapping or groping each other, they’d all be fired. I can’t imagine working at a place where anything like this would be tolerated.

Never worked a job where coworkers touched, slapped or groped each other. I did have a coworker who was keeping a “journal” on a shared computer write about wanting to choke me, I reported him to my supervisor nothing came of it. He eventually threatened a coworker in front of an office full of people , he was immediately fired after that.

For years I had a coworker that I fucked on an almost daily basis. I miss her. Now I work from home and my nearest coworker is a two hour drive away and is a man.

Do you work at a fight club or what ?
Why did you throw the bottle ?

Literally never. What the fuck?