This topic does not involve swimming AT all ... sorry ... I cannot stand my co-worker! She drives me crazy. First of all, I work in a very small law firm. There a total of eight employees. Four attorneys (one is part time), two secretaries, an errand boy (aka the head partner’s son), and myself. We have an open office sans cubicles. So there is NO escape. Moving on ... we are a very busy firm. Normally we have a couple of law clerks but right now we don’t. So most of the extra work falls on me. We don’t really have carved out jobs really we all kind of do everything. Though we do all have things that only we do. The annoying co-worker complains non-stop all day long. Seriously. Either she doesn’t have enough to do or the guys ask her to do stuff and she flips out “I don’t have time for this. I can’t handle this right now.” She complains about everything she is asked to do. She complains and/or comments on every phone call she answers. She gets all snippy with me and has basically told me that if I keep eating the way I do (I snack on healthy things all day) that I am going to get fat, so I should enjoy it while I can get away with it. She talks endlessly about how her son is in marching band and how that is the most important thing EVER, how hard it is and how much time it takes up ... I want to yell, do you know how many hours a week I spent in a gym in high school? Like, 30! AH! I can’t take it. I seriously want to yell SHUT UP! Everyone is busy and no one cares. She is a drama queen to the max. She is ALWAYS in pain, her knee, her back, she has a headache, a stomach ache, a cold ... she hasn’t been here everyday all day for two weeks since I started in September. It drives me crazy. I am really afraid that one day I’ll just blurt out shut up you whiney wench! Gr! Do any of you have annoying co-workers and how do you deal with it? Thanks!
Usually, I am not a complainer I swear, and I do see the irony of complaining about someone complaining.
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Heather,
Are you sure that you don't work in my office? Sounds like the same stuff I put up with here. Slightly different details to the "complainer's" stories, but basically the same: their problems are always more important that yours.
There's a know-it-all in my office who won't speak to me, won't even look at me when I pass her or worse, won't step into the same elevator I am on! What did I do to her? Beats the crap out of me! She's exactly eight months older than I, is short, fat, dumpy and looks about 15 years older and probably has no life. She's latched onto another woman in the office who is too nice to tell her to get lost. This one knows what's she's doing to be sure. It used to bother me quite a bit, but since I have great rapport with everyone else in the office, I worry less about it. This person's attitude is a result of poor management in my office; the previious administration let her run Scott-free for years. Now they can't do much about it.
I think that basically every office, organization, etc., has its own set of troublemakers. Guess it's a fact of life. I also figure that these jerks get their "comeuppance" eventually ... we just don't have the patience to see it come to pass.
Alicat's right. Many of us swim to rid ourselves of stress ... and that stress comes from the office. As Ralph Kramden said, "One of these days, Alice, ... bang, zoom!" (Now you younger folks probably don't even know who Ralph and Alice Kramden were. You pretty much have to be a Boomer or older to remember them!) :D
Heather,
Are you sure that you don't work in my office? Sounds like the same stuff I put up with here. Slightly different details to the "complainer's" stories, but basically the same: their problems are always more important that yours.
There's a know-it-all in my office who won't speak to me, won't even look at me when I pass her or worse, won't step into the same elevator I am on! What did I do to her? Beats the crap out of me! She's exactly eight months older than I, is short, fat, dumpy and looks about 15 years older and probably has no life. She's latched onto another woman in the office who is too nice to tell her to get lost. This one knows what's she's doing to be sure. It used to bother me quite a bit, but since I have great rapport with everyone else in the office, I worry less about it. This person's attitude is a result of poor management in my office; the previious administration let her run Scott-free for years. Now they can't do much about it.
I think that basically every office, organization, etc., has its own set of troublemakers. Guess it's a fact of life. I also figure that these jerks get their "comeuppance" eventually ... we just don't have the patience to see it come to pass.
Alicat's right. Many of us swim to rid ourselves of stress ... and that stress comes from the office. As Ralph Kramden said, "One of these days, Alice, ... bang, zoom!" (Now you younger folks probably don't even know who Ralph and Alice Kramden were. You pretty much have to be a Boomer or older to remember them!) :D
