Mon 11 Dec 2006
Trouble walked up to me before I even got in the elevator to get to my floor at work this morning. I’m still standing there waiting for the elevator to come down and this coworker — this oversensitive, tactless woman as her reputation is not only known to be but personally experienced by everyone — decided to make some inappropriate comment at me about something that’s none of her business and in fact, even made her sort of a hypocrite. Of course I defended myself and she wanted to have a bickersesh with me, so I just clammed up and refused to make any further eye contact with her. Finally inside the elevator, there was a 3rd person so I just stared at the buttons, feeling my face grow hot with my anger. The coworker spoke again. “*scoff* You are just getting skinnier and skinnier.” I didn’t turn around. She said, “You. Cindy. Aren’t you getting skinnier and skinnier?” This would be a compliment coming from anyone else, but even last Friday other coworkers were commiserating to me about how this very same coworker has been on their nerves accusing them of starving themselves and looking too sickly with weight loss, when my coworkers have felt just fine about themselves and didn’t need her critique. I told her in the elevator, “I don’t know. I don’t think I am.” She kept going on insisting that I’m dissolving and what am I trying to do? I said that I haven’t done anything, whatever I do isn’t working. Then my floor was up and I stepped out.
What a way to ruin the day. First thing at work. She couldn’t even wait until she was standing with me waiting for the elevator before she started; she had to talk crap as she was still walking toward me! I totally covered her butt last week, too, because for 3 days, she was supposed to work this specialized very busy courtroom, she had a fit, so I covered both that courtroom and my own courtroom so that she could go sit in her cushy relaxed courtroom. See if I ever do HER any more favors. Hmmph.
so SHE’s the one you’ve been covering for??????? Wow. You never told me about her before!
Yes I did. She’s the one that accused everyone of being racist for not including her in on the lotto pool, when in fact she wasn’t included because she was on vacation when the pool started.
I think every work place has a psycho. It just would be the same without one. 🙂 Makes you feel so much better that you are you and not them!
Actually…that is a good point. Things could be worse, I could BE her. Altho sometimes I feel like I’m turning into her.
Every workplace DOES have a psycho.. or few.
My last place totally had psychos. I don’t know about my new place yet. We’ll see.
But.. for the fun of it… you should have told nosy co-worker that you’re trying to get to 85 lbs because Nicole Richie is your hero.. then shove your fingers down your throat as you walk off the elevator 🙂
‘course then she’d make it her goal for the day to tell everyone that you’re binging in elevators. I purposefully did a couple things like that at my last job to the rumor starters and when it got around (it always did) .. I would laugh.
BAT SHIT CRAZY I TELL YA!!! That’s what she is!! BAT SHIT CRAZY!(co-worker, not Cindy)
Jordan – Except that Nicole Ritchie has always denied being bulimic; she claims to be sick and unable to put on the weight. This morning at like 4:15a, however, she was caught driving the wrong way on the 134 freeway carpool lane. 2 people on the freeway called 911, and when the police got there, she had already stopped her car, still facing the wrong way in the carpool lane, and was on her cell phone. Her alcohol test came back clean, but she said she had shortly before smoked pot. But I’m not gonna emulate THAT behavior in my new car.
Flat Coke – Can I tell her you said so?