At five minutes after five my work phone rang and woke me up. In my sleep fuddle I missed the call but I knew who it was.There's this one lady in the office who has no concept of breaks. Or lunches. I've gotten so tired of her calling me when I'm sitting in my car on break or at home trying to wolf down my fried egg sandwich that I've stopped bringing the phone with me. I'm not at my desk, I can't answer her question and it's not as if it's ever something that couldn't wait 15 fucking minutes.
So she left a voice mail to let me know that she would send me an email. And because she wanted everyone in the world to know that she was still working at 5 minutes past five trying to figure out a mistake I had made, she also cc'd my boss.
Yet she mistakenly thinks it would be an awesome good time for us to get together over a bottle of wine.
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Ugh. I so don't miss working, and especially with women.. The best career move I ever made was going into commercial construction and working with men. - I was an on site proj. coordinator. - So easy peasy they are. No cat fights. No bullshit. No telling the world anything. They'd just bring me stuff and say, "What the hell is this shit?" And if it was a mistake on my part I fixed it, end of story. So happy to be retired but sorry you have to put up with that..
ReplyDeleteI think it happens in all workplaces but man it irritates me.
DeleteI DO NOT miss office goings-on. Those kind of shenanigans tick me off.
ReplyDeleteSomeday I hope to be able to say that I don't miss it either. Until then I guess I just fume - although I have called her out on it in the past.
DeleteYep, I have one of "those" in my office too. The person who can't wait to point out everything you do that's wrong and also not take responsibility or have any concept of anyone else's responsibilities so they can't understand why you aren't tending to the exact thing they need right now. Rather than Human Resources, there should be an office psychologist who determines the sociopaths, not to fire them, just to raise a flag so everyone else in the office is on the same page, and we all know what we're dealing with.
ReplyDeleteThis one has gone to the HR manager and cried about her co-workers not liking her.
DeleteI hardly have any women friends for that very reason. I love that in your bio you said you wrangle asshats by night. I love that. I am totally following you form now on.
ReplyDeleteThank you!
DeleteI also keep my circle of friends very small.
DeleteEquality -- some women and men love to be snarky and nasty to one another. Thankfully, there are lots of good eggs out there too!
ReplyDeleteAll of what you say is true especially about the good eggs. When it comes to work I don't feel the need to be anybody's friend but I do like working with people I can really respect. When that becomes impossible I try to respect the job they have to do.
DeleteUgh. I'm not sure who is worse, THOSE types of co-workers or the completely lazy, it's a toss up. And why I don't miss office jobs!
ReplyDeleteIn my experience, managers usually feel the same way about suckups, even if they don't always let you know it. Hope you got a "half-assed" nap at least in your half-assed life ;)
I did get a half assed nap. It was divine as all naps are.
DeleteShe sounds horrible. I would stop answering her calls completely.
ReplyDeleteIf I had a way to identify which calls were from her (other than the timing) I probably would not answer many.
DeleteWhat an awful woman. And passive aggressive, which is the WORST.
ReplyDeleteThe worst. I get that she wants to look good at her job. Everybody wants that, but some people try to look good by doing good and some people try to look good by making others look bad.
DeleteOh good grief, that's so irritably frustrating. I know the feeling!
ReplyDeleteVery frustrating. I'm not even sure she realizes what she is doing. I hope she's just clueless and not doing it on purpose.
DeleteWe certainly act like it at times don't we?
ReplyDeleteYeesh. That is the worst. Bleh. I work with all women. I know just what you're talking about.
ReplyDeleteIt's the number one reason I never socialize with co-workers.
DeleteMy wife recently quit her job in an office because of co-workers like that. Now she's at home working with me. Hopefully she's not texting her friends, telling her friends what an ass her boss is! :)
ReplyDeletehonestly.....she's the boss.
I'm sure there's only some times where she's texting her friends to complain about her boss, and maybe some other times when she's posting it on facebook. ;-0
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