If anyone here can give me some hindoo brain insight I'd appreciate it. Unless it's not an indian thing and instead the most elaborate slow burn prank ever which I'd
almost respect.
We have one token "He has to be here or we get audited for big o trees probably" jeet at work and he keeps on and off trying to either endear to me like some american psycho imitation is flattery routine or mistaking my ever presence for hierarchical importance. Of which I am not that high up the ladder. I'm the glorified mid day unfinished work finisher and graveyard shift last minute deployment guy or watchman if anything breaks and someone has to call and wake up the wizards.
That or he's trying to skinwalk me. Either way I find it highly off putting.
He's not doing anything COMPLETELY wrong exactly nor getting too close or doing stalker child shit 1:1 or god fucking forbid trying to hang out after work or follow me to my fucking car, just weirdo shit on the clock that is a string of "weird but not reportable" actions.
But whenever my patience and focus on what I'm doing fades as I feel his presence linger too long in the room like a cumin scented poultergeist I politely but firmly tell him he's been here way too long to be shadowing me or similar knock it off in more corporate friendly phrases.
Then he gives it a fucking rest for another few months before softly ramping back up and resuming
but it's so goddamn strange.
Like cargo cult imitation down to when and how I get coffee which I tested by bringing my own from home for a bit and less than 3 days later he's bringing a fuckin' thermos as close as you can get in make color and size to mine too. This would be pure schizo shit in a vaccuum but when it's slowly ramped up to wearing knockoffs of my shoes and hearing my own work-ism brain off placeholder pleasantries and confirmations come out in indian pattois like some sort of creature in the woods imitating me it's beyond the goddamn pale at that point.
We don't even work the same shifts, we just have 3 hours overlap at most.
And my own starting schedule for checking logs, so he starts checking logs. Despite his assigned work being for a completely goddamn different section and he's been told off several times for this to a point where they just straight up revoked his access to specific parts of the system and he stopped doing that.
HR has just shrugged when I made an inquiry if this is some sort of offense or boundry thing and they only said it's borderline, but unless he does something actionable without backing off when asked he's basically covered by the playground rule of "I'm not touching you"
It's gone from genuine concern to just annoyance with one eye always watching just in case.
Is there some sort of izzat based or corporate version of ass kissing or trying to be your friend without actually talking to you in Indian culture?
Edit: For context also I've specifically talked to him and asked him what his deal is over certain instances and I just get "I doo nooot knowww saar" and other variations. No weird tells, no smirking, no real body language or head bobbling. Just a very glazed and dazed look that looks like they are genuinely confused why I even asked.
