# Is touching co-workers OK?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-touching-co-workers-ok/833424>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [May 3, 2019, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-touching-co-workers-ok/833424 "2019-05-03T15:42:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\
**Post date:** [May 4, 2019, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-touching-co-workers-ok/833424/153 "2019-05-04T07:01:55Z")

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> [@Slash1972](#):
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> I see. And if the person touched considers all parts of their body the same, they should just suck it up because it was “only a shoulder touch”?

They can & should tell the other person “Sorry, I just don’t like being touched- at all.”

But you dont get to take your odd phobias to HR and get another person in trouble for a normal human behavior.

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