'colleague being' is not a valid sentence fragment in written English
To use 'colleague' correctly, it must include a verb. For example, you could say, "My colleague is being helpful."
When did you last hear a male colleague being told they were "just jealous" when they complained about a coworker?
One evening I witnessed my colleague being asked to bare her breasts in return for extra tips.
If a guy in a band has a conflict with a male colleague, he'll just put it down to the colleague being an ass.
Here's a tip: if you witness a colleague being humiliated in public, don't tell her to walk away, laugh it off or make a joke out of it.
Thankfully, his speech then moved on to a couple of lines attacking public-sector trade unions for threatening "irresponsible" strikes, and the crowd finally found something to clap.The loudest applause that I heard, sitting in the hall among the delegates, came each time that Mr Osborne bashed the Labour Party (and once when he made a joke about a Conservative cabinet colleague being fat).
Sir Fred Goodwin, the controversial former chief executive of the Royal Bank of Scotland, obtained a superinjunction to prevent details of his alleged extra-marital affair with a senior colleague being made public, it has been claimed in the House of Lords.
