Throughout my career I’ve always taken pride in being a diplomatic worker who is well liked. I have a very dry and sarcastic sense of humour. Some get it and others don’t. Of course, I’m careful to never be nasty; it’s always all in good fun. Personally, I think it’s important to show a bit of personality and humour at work and I’ve never thought there was a problem, until now.

One morning, I was with colleagues chatting about compliments that our partners had given us and mine was that my husband loves that I’m not “bitchy”. When I shared this, everyone went silent, a few of the team members gave each other sideways glances and one made a scoffing noise. I was very taken aback and felt weird about it for the rest of the day.

Later that week at pub drinks someone revealed that (unnamed)

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