A manager or coworker at a work from home job who constantly spies on your status in teams, Slack, or other company messaging app.
The status
stalker typically doesn’t have enough
work to do on their own. So they spend their
time seeing what others are doing and mentally tracking how active or inactive other employees are, rather than the task at hand.
The status
stalker will ping you right when your status shows as away. Never mind breaks or lunches, they’ll always come at you with some trivial ask as soon as you step away.
It is a form of micro management and busy body behavior. Typically seen in toxic management or brown nosers.
The status
stalker even acts on nights, weekends, and holidays. They love to send pings or emails in these off hours or subtly mention they were working on the weekend or holiday in a team meeting.
This is because they have no life outside of work and hope to bring the rest of the coworkers down with them.