Rant about an irritating co-worker
May. 4th, 2005 09:37 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annissamazingI think Cathy's mad at me. She called off sick on Friday (a day she'd already requested off for orthodox easter). On Monday she came in and quickly announced that everyone needed to stay away from her because she was sick. Then she said she caught it from Ed and me because we'd been sneezing on Thursday. I announced that I sneeze all the time and wasn't sick at all last week or over the weekend. Alane gave me her old baby monitor and Cathy wanted to look at it. So she came over to my workspace and started touching it. I told her as politely as I could that if she was sick she needed to keep away from me. I've got a suppressed immune system and cannot take any drugs to help me feel better if I get sick.
Cathy said, "I'm not that close to you."
I said, "You're in my workspace and you're touching my stuff."
So she walked around the wall of my cube and talked to me from the other side of it, "I didn't think I was that close and I think you were kind of rude."
She hasn't talked to me since. Now, keep in mind that this is the woman who will scream at people to "Go away!" when she gets tired of them talking in or around her workspace, even if she's not part of the conversation.
I can't say it hasn't been a relief. She's gotten so irritating these past few months that I'm counting down to her last day. Then I will celebrate.
Yesterday she decided that since she only has two weeks left she was going to bitch at anyone and everyone she wanted to bitch at. In the space of two hours she got into three screaming matches with different co-workers.
One was over the star incentive program (a silly thing where people award each other yellow stars for nice things they do around the office. At the end of the month the person who has awarded the most stars and the person who has received the most stars get prizes). She didn't feel it was right that people who work internal support get more stars than those who work with clients. She also thought it was horrible that certain people (such as myself) are not eligible for the star program. Those of us who are not eligible don't give a rat's ass about the star program, but that didn't stop Cathy. Oh no.
The next one was over Pat's obnoxious cell phone ringer. Yes, it's irritating, but I would rather listen to 10 minutes of that phone than another one of Cathy's rants which always last 5 minutes after the phone has stopped ringing. So here's how it goes down: Phone rings, Cathy starts screaming about how annoying it is and demanding that someone "bury it" or "turn it off." Adam, and I don't know why he did this, decided to turn down the volume on the phone. As he's doing that, Pat catches him and tells him to calm down. Adam shrugs and says, "it's just Cathy."
And the third screaming rant begins. "It's not just Cathy! It's all of us and I'm the only one who will say anything! I can't believe I'm sticking up for all of you and none of you are backing me up! Why would you say it's just Cathy!? No one here has the balls to speak up but me! But I don't care because I'm going to be gone in 2 weeks anyway!" Repeat for 5 minutes.
Cathy is relocating to Columbus. She has a rich mother-in-law who didn't like the house they were considering buying, so she offered them $40K to buy a nicer house. She accepted it and they put an offer on a house outside of their price range. Now that they're so far into the buying process, MIL has decided that she doesn't want to pay any taxes on the money she promised Cathy's family, and has taken back her offer leaving Cathy in an awkward spot. I'm now listening to this story for the fourth time today. It's not even 10:00 yet.
Oh wait. She's telling a different story now. The one about the star program. Hooray.
Cathy said, "I'm not that close to you."
I said, "You're in my workspace and you're touching my stuff."
So she walked around the wall of my cube and talked to me from the other side of it, "I didn't think I was that close and I think you were kind of rude."
She hasn't talked to me since. Now, keep in mind that this is the woman who will scream at people to "Go away!" when she gets tired of them talking in or around her workspace, even if she's not part of the conversation.
I can't say it hasn't been a relief. She's gotten so irritating these past few months that I'm counting down to her last day. Then I will celebrate.
Yesterday she decided that since she only has two weeks left she was going to bitch at anyone and everyone she wanted to bitch at. In the space of two hours she got into three screaming matches with different co-workers.
One was over the star incentive program (a silly thing where people award each other yellow stars for nice things they do around the office. At the end of the month the person who has awarded the most stars and the person who has received the most stars get prizes). She didn't feel it was right that people who work internal support get more stars than those who work with clients. She also thought it was horrible that certain people (such as myself) are not eligible for the star program. Those of us who are not eligible don't give a rat's ass about the star program, but that didn't stop Cathy. Oh no.
The next one was over Pat's obnoxious cell phone ringer. Yes, it's irritating, but I would rather listen to 10 minutes of that phone than another one of Cathy's rants which always last 5 minutes after the phone has stopped ringing. So here's how it goes down: Phone rings, Cathy starts screaming about how annoying it is and demanding that someone "bury it" or "turn it off." Adam, and I don't know why he did this, decided to turn down the volume on the phone. As he's doing that, Pat catches him and tells him to calm down. Adam shrugs and says, "it's just Cathy."
And the third screaming rant begins. "It's not just Cathy! It's all of us and I'm the only one who will say anything! I can't believe I'm sticking up for all of you and none of you are backing me up! Why would you say it's just Cathy!? No one here has the balls to speak up but me! But I don't care because I'm going to be gone in 2 weeks anyway!" Repeat for 5 minutes.
Cathy is relocating to Columbus. She has a rich mother-in-law who didn't like the house they were considering buying, so she offered them $40K to buy a nicer house. She accepted it and they put an offer on a house outside of their price range. Now that they're so far into the buying process, MIL has decided that she doesn't want to pay any taxes on the money she promised Cathy's family, and has taken back her offer leaving Cathy in an awkward spot. I'm now listening to this story for the fourth time today. It's not even 10:00 yet.
Oh wait. She's telling a different story now. The one about the star program. Hooray.