Opinion needed on how to handle work situation

fumafoo101
Sat, 01 Sep 2012 22:54:05 +0000

He seems to know most of the other seniors already, and is always willing to help other seniors with equipment if I am not in the room. I could try to get the conversion to gear more towards the other senior instead of me, but I don’t know if I could get another senior over to where he is exercising. They tend to come talk for a few minutes, and go.

I know there isn’t much I can do to fix his loneliness expect for continue short conversions with him. I would have to do research to find any sort of club, or another center he might be interested in. Most likely he would continue coming to this though because he has been a member there since the 70’s I believe. I could be wrong, but from the way he talks it sounds like he is in the upper 80’s for age.

I will work with the suggestions I have, and hopefully he will stop with the offers of rides, phone numbers, and meetings outside of work. At least I hope he will lessen the amount of times he does offer. I find it a little creepy that he would continue on with them after I said no although I really do feel bad he is alone. I’ll see what ideas my boss may have in regards to this because I do remember him specifically stating that we shouldn’t become too close to any seniors. So I could be reading too much into this, but I am thinking there may have been a problem in the past. Who knows maybe with this same senior.