{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Why Does It Feel So Wrong To Be Human At Work?","title":"The One With the Office Tickler | Reacting to Reddit at Work","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1825,"description":"A coworker crawled under her desk to fix a power strip. She slipped her heels off, got down on the floor, and made herself vulnerable for two seconds. And that's when the coworker behind her reached over, wrapped an arm around her ankles, and started tickling her feet.\nYes. At work. In 2026. We have questions too.\nIn this Reacting to Reddit at Work episode of Why Does It Feel So Wrong to Be Human at Work?, Bree Bartos brings Pinaki Kathiari and Chris Lee a Best of Redditor Updates story so strange the original poster used Friends character names to tell it. Rachel got tickled. Monica did the tickling. Phoebe is the hands-off manager who walked Monica to HR and then never really resolved anything. And five months later, nobody got closure and everybody got punished.\nIt's a story about workplace boundaries, about what makes a mistake termination-worthy versus a conversation, and about what happens when management avoids the hard conversation entirely and lets a situation rot.\nIn this episode, they discuss:\n•\tWhere the line actually is on workplace physical boundaries, and why \"we're all human at work\" doesn't mean there aren't any\n•\tThe difference between a one-time lapse in judgment and a pattern of disrespect\n•\tWhy the real failure here was management never bringing everyone together for a resolution\n•\tWhether the reaction would have been different if it were Joey instead of Monica\n•\tPinaki on running toward conflict instead of away from it, and the Local Wisdom Nerf gun incident\n•\tWhy Monica never actually apologized, and how much that one missing piece mattered\n•\tThe mantra: companies come and go, but the relationship is what stays\n•\tAn ending where everyone got what they wanted and nobody felt good about it\nHow would you have handled this one? Because we're still not totally sure.\n---\nConnect with UsPinaki Kathiari – LinkedIn  | Local WisdomChris Lee – LinkedIn | Gallagher CommunicationBree Bartos – LinkedIn | Local Wisdom\nSpecial thanks to digital...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/pzVlCg7ln3V4X3Q1vTCzZqnoPAE496BdgiOlxcQzUO4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8xODAw/NjYyNTc3NjljNGI2/OWEwMmUyMjI1NWEy/NGJiMi5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}