'That is really not your business': Teacher lashes out at coworker in public for asking questions about her personal life

Keeping life and work separate is, of course, a healthy separation to strive to achieve, but it is nearly impossible to achieve entirely. Balance is important, but the inability to achieve a total separation between life and work is not necessarily a bad thing. Just ask anyone who has seen the Severance! 

The fact of the matter is that you spend the majority of your week as an adult with your coworkers. They are bound to get to know you in some small way, and that is necessary for healthy collaboration in the workplace. They don't need to know everything about your personal life (they shouldn't), but keeping any detail about life outside of work silent is almost weirder. 

This teacher was showing her new coworker the ropes when the coworker asked her a few personal questions about why she hadn't applied to a higher-up position. It wasn't exactly a typical question to ask someone you just met, but the teacher's response was way over-the-top and will now only make things tense. She shared her side of the story on Reddit's r/AmITheA**hole subreddit and learned from the ruthless judges of the AITA community the difference between work-life balance and what she did. For more stories like this, feel free to take a look at this post about a boss's passive-aggressive message to their team.