You know what? I think that I would tell HR on the grounds she is creating an uncomfortable and hostile work environment.
Left unchecked long enough, she will start evangelizing the "benefits" of being gluten free.
Do take note that this would be a scientifically unsupported diet change that is unsupervised by a physician.
Left to her devices, she would start making hiring and promotion choices based on gluten free diets.
But Smitty you say, that's not legal. Hell fuck no it ain't. But that won't stop some people. It hasn't in the past and it will happen in the future. Here's the thing, do you want to be the one to have to fight that?
Nip that shit in the bud fast. That nutjob whackadoo needs to leave that shit at home.
She's just boring and has nothing better to talk about. HR is not going to be interested. Where do you draw the line? What about the people who talk about crossfit (there is a VP in my company obsessed with crossfit) or or their cat or their pot smokers or their kids (I've actually seen people hired or not hired because they are parents) or the lady next to me who literately can not get through a day without mentioning she is a vegan?..she's not my boss... just super annoying.
People can be boring and annoying.. but sadly it's not a crime.
Or it could be that she has to be on a gluten free diet. They could be allergic or have coeliac disease where they can not have gluten. Yes she keeps repeating it but that might be because she doesn't really have anything she can talk with the person about or it could be the situation where someone is offering food and she has to state that she can't have it because she is gluten free. That is something that has happened to me where people kept forgetting that I couldn't have gluten and would offer me things and I would have to remind them I couldn't have it. Also yes it could be annoying but that doesn't make it a hostile action and usually in work places they judge you on your qualifications not on the diet you have. The kids I can understand in some jobs that relate to dealing with kids but I don't understand if it happens in other jobs. Having kids can qualify you because that usually means you can deal with kids.
You think so? Slippery slope as in, I expect things to get worse/escalate and take (potential) unwanted action?
... I thought that had a different name. I get your point to though.
I think it might be as accurate to say that it's not necessarily based on fallacious thinking, but more in that I can be an asshole.
See, I'm gluten free because I have celiac and I always find it really embarrassing to have to tell people when they offer me food because of people like this. :( I don't want to come across as one of "those guys", you know?
Left unchecked long enough, she will start evangelizing the "benefits" of being gluten free.
Do take note that this would be a scientifically unsupported diet change that is unsupervised by a physician.
Left to her devices, she would start making hiring and promotion choices based on gluten free diets.
But Smitty you say, that's not legal. Hell fuck no it ain't. But that won't stop some people. It hasn't in the past and it will happen in the future. Here's the thing, do you want to be the one to have to fight that?
Nip that shit in the bud fast. That nutjob whackadoo needs to leave that shit at home.
People can be boring and annoying.. but sadly it's not a crime.
... I thought that had a different name. I get your point to though.
I think it might be as accurate to say that it's not necessarily based on fallacious thinking, but more in that I can be an asshole.