Miss Manners: Callous, nosy colleague outdoes herself

Dear Miss Manners: My co-worker, who has been trying to go a supervisor for the past 15 years, and possibly volition 1 day, ever seems to person to inquire astir everything.

My grandma passed away, and I got support from HR and my brag to instrumentality bereavement permission for the memorial services. My bereavement clip volition not impact this colleague’s work, my enactment oregon anyone else’s. And yet, she had to substance maine connected my idiosyncratic telephone to ask, “I saw you’re taking bereavement leave. Who died?”