2007-10-19 - 11:10 a.m.
Okay, I have to find somewhere to unload these miserable feelings so the online anonymous diary of past work whining sounds perfect! No need to email it all to my husband since that wouldn't be fair, and it's mostly stuff I need to just get over anyway.
But oh how I loathe her. A certain person I work with in my new university job. I cannot stand sharing an office with her and it's only been three months.
I think it would be helpful to me to occasionally come in here and note her misdeeds. They will probably seem more minor in print, which should help, and I need to just purge anyway.
So I took my first day off two days ago, mainly because I had to get away from her. She decided to call in sick yesterday. . . which made me happy since I had a whole day in the office without her, but evidently this is just what she will do ANYTIME I take a day off, since she did it to my predecessor. WTF? Why do that? Is she angry that I took time off that I am entitled to? Or can she not let anyone else have anything that she doesn't have too? Sounds appropriate for a narcissist I suppose . . . one day I'll have to write a rant about her taking pictures of herself with her computer and posting them around her workspace. That is so incredibly fucked up and bizarre. Two of them are looking at me right now, and it's creepy. VERY creepy, and I can see my desk and bulletin board in the background of one of them so I know she's made point to change her framed one since I came here.
For the record, I'm sure she has several good qualities and she can be very nice to people when she wants to. I don't care - I can't stand working with her. I need to find ways to purge my strong dislike of her rather than feed the hatred, since that just gives this icky person too much control over my life and emotions. Like several people who were terrible to work with in my old job. I didn't have to share an office with them, though.
Anyway, getting back to why I came here today, just the small stuff. Why does she make a point to say she has to go to lunch at 10:30 since she has important things to do (dry cleaning), then decide at 10:30 that she's going to the bathroom (which means she disappears for 30-40 minutes every single time she says this), then not leave until 11am? I'm glad for her to go at all, but what the hell? She almost NEVER comes back in one hour but usually takes an hour and a half or more, so taking the 30 minute bathroom break gives her a two hour lunch.
Once again, I LOVE IT when she's not in the office, but it's just uncool, unprofessional, and inconsiderate. Like the heavy perfume she bathed in until I was forced to talk with her about it twice (talking with her about problems is awful and she takes things very badly, but she gets even more evil if you ask the supervisor to deal with problems so I guess I'm screwed either way). And like the fact that she eats ALL DAY LONG most days and chews with her mouth open, sometimes talking to people in the office with her mouth full of food . . . the smacking sounds she makes are going to drive me insane I'm sure . . . and how she gets dozens of personal calls a day since she's some sort of religious counselor and spends a significant portion of her work day doing that openly in the office . . . the phone hardly rang yesterday at all since she was "sick."
Okay, I think I DO feel a little better! Writing about her is sort of a waste of time since she's not worth the effort, but my psyche IS worth it and now it's out of my system for the moment. Besides, I hate to waste time thinking about how much I can't stand her when it's a brief moment of not having her in the office while she's at lunch . . . so no Hutt for now!
