I know this isn’t necessarily a dating strategy post, however it involves FDS tactics related to the work place and proof FDS strategies can range far and wide. I have two 9 AM meetings a week with a male coworker on Wednesday/Thursday’s. We use the time as check-ins for the current projects we are producing and make sure everything is in order for publication. For the last 3 meetings he has been calling me on my personal phone number for the meetings, even though we have it scheduled on our calendars for a video chat. In addition I have mentioned several times to not only him but the rest of the team that if they need to call or text me to use my work phone (which the organization pays for). I even emailed everyone the number. Yesterday he called me once again on my personal phone line, which I have set to do not disturb while I am working from home. It helps with distraction. I called him back and told him to use my work phone to call me about work related things, or to call the work phone if he wants to switch from video calls. So today for our Thursday meeting I jump on the video call and wait. A couple minutes go by and he hasn’t shown up. So I check my personal phone and low and behold ladies he’s called my personal line. For a split second I almost called him back on my personal line to bitch at him. But then I remembered that I’ve explicitly told him not 24 hours ago to call my work line. So I did not call back and I waited on the video chat. Seconds later he pops online. This only proves that they know and hear what you tell them, they just don’t care or are lazy. Maintain your boundaries at all times.