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Saturday, Feb. 04, 2006 - 10:25 a.m. Its done, I'm done
I did it.� I submitted my resignation
yesterday.� Granted, I don't know if Mike got it or not because he was out
all day yesterday driving back from a deposition in Dallas.� So I left him
a letter on his chair with a note to call me over the weekend to discuss.�
I am just sick of being the office pariah and sick of my co-workers ready
misperceptions about me.� Yesterday morning, one of the "ladies"
I work with demanded to know why I had "raked her over the coals" (if
I remember her exact words) regarding her working hours.� I was taken aback
because I have never done such a thing.� I explained to her that when I was
pleading my case to Mike to try to change my hours, that he stated no one worked
special hours, and I replied that she was afforded the opportunity to work 8:00
to 5:00.� She quickly corrected me, in a snide tone, that she works 8:00 t0
5:15 to compensate being able to come in and leave at that time, and that the
attorney she works for has a different practice than my boss.� I told her
that Mike had made that clear to me and that he has different time
requirements.� I then asked her if she would be willing to tell me who
informed her of what I had said, and again, snidely replied, "No, I don't
think so."� Fine.� Don't give me a chance to defend myself
against false conceptions.� Its always been like that.� They are going
to believe about me what they want to believe, regardless if they have it wrong. Another example....� when it became
clear that Hurricane Rita was going to become a Cat. 5 storm, my parents called
me early that Wednesday morning before it hit and told me to get the hell out of
Dodge and up to Dallas.� I was already on my way into work and called Mike
to let him know.� He asked me to just go ahead and come on in, clear out my
office of any and everything that I could, and I could leave.� I went in,
packed up everything that I could carry or move, took painting and artwork off
the walls in the main hallways of the building and then left a few hours
later.� On my way out, the "ladies" were all sitting outside
smoking, I told them all to be safe and God bless.� Not one of them even acknowledged
me.� When we were back at the office a few days
later, people were telling their tales of being stuck on the freeway and
whatnot.� A few days later I learned from one of the attorneys that my
lovely co-workers had been bitching about me and were pissed because they
somehow got it in their heads that when I left the office, I went straight home
and took a nap.� And when I enquired about this misconception, I was told
that I actually TOLD one of the attorneys I went home and took a nap, and the
others were pissed because they "had to do my work."� I did
manage to explain that when I left the office, I went all over looking for duct
tape and supplies, then went home and had to secure the entire house by myself,
move all the items from the patio, tape up all the windows, pack, do a video
inventory of the house, disconnect all the computers and pack them up, get the
pets ready, and a whole bunch of other crap.� At 10:00 p.m. I crawled into
bed totally exhausted basically to take a nap so I could get up a few hours
later to leave in the early morning hours.� And then this woman, who is the
one referenced above, just looked at me, and said, "Well, we all had to do
your work.� I'm a single mom too you know."� I was so sickened by
this that I just looked at her shocked for a moment, and turned and walked
out.� Yes she is a single mom, but she has two teenagers who are perfectly
capable of doing thing for themselves and I was having to do all of this by
myself, with an 8 month old.� Its perceptions of me like this that really
have me almost HATING them.� I
just can't do it anymore.� I am sick of taking the high road and being
friendly, which at this point has pretty much become disingenuous.� I hate
the anxiety I feel every day going in to work knowing that my greetings to them
will go mostly ignored.� I hate the anticipation of when one of them will
snap at me and be rude.� Oh, I have addressed this with Mike before, but
his reply was that there is nothing he can do about it.� Well, wrong.�
He just WON'T do anything about it.� I am not about firing people, but, in this
case I would make an exception.� When you have someone who is openly
hostile to one of her co-workers for NO REASON, then SHE is a problem
employee.� When she CREATES tension in the work place, then she is a
problem, and she should be fired.� When the problem has been ongoing, before you even went to work there, it is a problem. But he won't address it with her, talk to her, reprimand her, or fire her.� So I am going
instead because I just don't want to deal with it anymore. Song
Virus du Jour:� "The Boys Are Back in Town" ~ The Busboys Useless
Trivia du Jour:� I still think "Delirious," Eddie Murphy's
1982 concert, is one of the funniest things I have ever heard. |
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