Having a quiet, productive hobby to enjoy on your work breaks is a small mercy amongst the corporate grind. It’s a peaceful little bubble of creativity, a way to de-stress and make the day go by a little faster. As long as it’s not bothering anyone, it’s a perfect, harmless perk.
But that peaceful bubble is incredibly easy to pop, especially when a coworker decides your hobby should also be their free personal service. Your skill becomes a resource to be exploited. For one woman, her relaxing break-time knitting session was unraveled by a coworker’s outrageous demand and a boss’s spineless solution.
More info: Reddit