Getting trapped in a conversation with an obnoxious coworker is like hitting a meeting with no agenda. The real skill at work isn’t always making small talk- but mastering the art of avoiding it.

What would you do if you had a coworker who was insistent on instigating you about the same topic constantly? One person recently shared an obnoxious example about this with Reddit. Here’s what happened.

AITA for telling my coworker that I don’t want to talk about media with her because of her obsession with morality?

I was talking with my coworker about a show we both like.

In this show there are two characters who have great chemistry, and their stories overlap in a way that suggests they will be, if nothing else, great friends.

I think there’s potential for one of the best slow burn romantic stories of all time, but that’s just me.

A tale as old as time.

One of the two characters is married, but it’s heavily implied it’s a bad one.

I mentioned that for the next season, wouldn’t it be fun if we found out that character was either no longer married, or there’s some illicit affair action happening.

She lost her mind at me and told me I was a horrible person, I was evil if I thought a fictional character should break up a family, and that it would ruin the show for her completely.

Uh…sounds like this girl needs to go touch grass.

I was like… ok.

But she wouldn’t leave it alone, and she told me that I must like seeing real families being torn apart and the trauma that comes with it and how disgusting and horrible it is.

I don’t care if she personally doesn’t want to see that happen in the show!

This went from zero to one hundred incredibly quickly.

It made me realize however that any time we talk about media, she gets stuck on which characters are good or bad people or who is “unlikeable”.

Forget discussing plot dynamics, storytelling, or anything, it’s just who is evil or good or bad.

She’ll say things like “X character is overrated” or “X is over hated and people who dislike that character are projecting.”

That’s everyone’s favorite new phrase these days.

So the other day, she tried to show me social media posts about the show and I let her know that I’d prefer to just not talk about media with her anymore because her morality hangup makes it difficult.

She took deep offense to this and told me that I’m the one with the issue if I can’t accept what other people think, and it’s crappy of me to disengage just because I don’t like her opinions.

The irony is clearly lost on her here.

The thing is that I don’t care that she has a different opinion about the show.

I care that she turns it into some morality thing about me.

I talk to other people about this show (and others) and it does not bother me at all if people disagree on what they see or want to see.

Most normal people can…

Many (most probably) people have interpreted the relationship between the two characters completely different than me.

I’m not super invested in “fandom” or “shipping” beyond just having eyes and seeing parallels that are in the show.

But she insists that I am in the wrong and that I’m just projecting. AITA?

Having a job where you’re stuck with coworkers like this non-stop sounds like a nightmare. Let’s see what wisdom the Reddit comments had to offer.

The comments immediately read this as larger than a friendly debate.

Others were baffled by the coworker’s audacity.

One person could relate all too well.

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Another offered some practical advice.

But someone was able to cut right to the heart of the issue.

Time to hit “Skip” on talking to this girl.