Don’t be. Just turn off the phone and go to a spa.
If it is a serious concern, PM her name to me, and put call forwarding on from your phone to my office phone for a couple of days. Then go to a spa and let me deal with her professionally if she tries to call you.
No worries, I don’t run the Two Guys Named Vinny Law Firm. I was thinking more along the lines of following up a call from her with her with a conversation with whoever runs the company, using not-so-happy words such as harassment, constructive dismissal, litigation and legal costs, and then let the person runing the company take appropriate action to protect the company from her actions by seeing to it that she never darkens your door again. The trick is to get the person running the company to realize that I don’t bluff. (And in fact, no, I don’t bluff – with me, what you see is what you get.)
Oh. Well, that’s too bad. Not that I wish harm on her. Maybe a few hangnails. Never-ending paper cuts, maybe. Developing an allergy to computer keyboardds and white laser printer paper. Astonishing flatulence. That kind of thing.
I’ve given notice twice in my life. The first was after working at an engineering consulting firm for six years; the second was after working at another consulting firm for only six weeks. In both cases, I was a bit unsure about the reaction that I might receive (i.e. possibly being escorted off the premises).
Nevertheless, this didn’t happen, and I ended up in both cases working my tail off for my last two weeks closing out projects and turning them over to other people. My boss at the first place had to prod me to finish things up on my last day so they could take me out for beers. At the second place, it actually got kind of embarrassing when I had not one, but two, going-away lunches. :dubious:
Regarding the OP: I would absolutely not give negative feedback to an employer. Nothing but downside, so far as I see.
I don’t tend to work my ass off after I’ve given notice (what are they going to do, fire me?), but I still (usually) put in a good day’s work. This is the first time I’ve ever jammed on my commitment to work out my two week notice, but these circumstances are unique (i.e. there’s a crazy person there).
More micro-managing and excessive controlling, another argument about me leaving and my bad attitude, blah blah blah. I don’t think she understands what, “I can’t work with you” means. Maybe I should have said, “I won’t work with you. I choose not to work with someone as unprofessional as you.”
At some point in the Bad Attitude Train, I become overcome with the need to tell the
“you have a bad attitude” declaimer that I only have a bad attitude because THEY have a bad attitude.
“Because, come on, if you weren’t some hopelessly incompetent control freak psychopath who thought that everything that happened was the fault of everyone around you EXCEPT you, then the rest of us probably wouldn’t have a “bad attitude” about putting up with your shit.”
I’ve done some research into this area of employment law, especially with regards to Alberta employers. I’d be glad to help you with Alberta-specific information–just ask.