The News Is Filled With Stories About Co-Workers Biting People – WTF Is Happening?

You don’t often get to choose who you work with. You might have to fend off managers who dismiss you, colleagues who discredit you – and in some rare cases, a co-worker who bites you?

According to multiplereports, a New York City-based summer law associate at a prestigious law firm got dismissed after biting several colleagues. In Above the Law, the outlet reported that the bites were “not in an aggressive, ‘we’re beefing’ way,” but that they were more than just a “nibble.”

HuffPost reached out to Sidley Austin, the firm where the associate reportedly worked, and has not heard back.

Surprisingly, this is not the first time a person has been accused of chomping on the flesh of their colleague in recent days.

In June, “Cobra Kai” actor Alicia Hannah-Kim accused her co-star Martin Kove of biting her arm hard after she tapped him on the shoulder to greet him at a VIP section. Kove later issued a public apology to his “Cobra Kai” co-star.

“I was being playful in the moment but went too far and there is absolutely no excuse for my behaviour,” Kove stated in his apology.

Biting your colleagues, no matter for what “playful” reason, is wrong, and yet the number of reported instances suggests that a public service announcement is needed on what kind of platonic touch is acceptable between colleagues at work.

Managers who have experience with difficult or bizarre colleagues shared what they think might be going on here.

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