This woman at work whom I hate.

The BBQ Pit
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There is this nasty woman at work who always tries to bully her way into a training room during training to kick people out of the room. She only thinks this is possible because she outranks the people there. They schedule this training 6-12 months in advance as this room is very popular and have people coming in from out of state most of the time for it. As you can guess, I have something to do with the training room. Anyway, she calls me up this morning asking who is in the room. I tell her who it is and that they are doing Congressional Testimony in it today because that is what they are doing. I also say that they have had it scheduled for the last four months.

She says that is alright, I know we will be able to get them out of there. (RRRRGGGGGHHHHH!!! This woman.)

Anyway, I say please don’t try to boot them out of there that is very rude.

To which she replies, I won’t kick them out of there and I am not a rude person.

WTF?!?!??!? First off this dippy producer of human caviar told me directly that she would be able to get them out of there and that she wasn’t a rude person. The discrepency between her actions and her words is so deep that the Titanic could have sunk in it and slipped through the hole in the fabric of the universe. Where does she get off acting that way. Even if I somehow imagined that she said that she could get the people out of there, her history with me has only ever been her calling me to see if she can get into the room regardless of who was actually in there.

This part of her lying to me directly on the phone just now is what really gets to me. I don’t like her being rude to the people that have been in there for a while as they end up coming back to me and venting off on me. It really irks me to no end because of her indiscretion I have to be at the brunt of others verbal abuse.

I can only hope that the western version of Karma will roll around into her life and have all the nastiness and lying that she has been spreading come back to haunt her. In fact I think that is what happens in her personal life.

Did I tell you guys that she is also a Jesus freak? All around her office is various Jesus paraphenalia. It is like a drug to her. She has never preached to me directly but I have had to wait for her before and she had some nasty outbursts about how Jesus made her spank her kids. Yeah, I can imagine Jesus sitting off to the side of her and say, “go hit your children they are bad.” “Do bad things J…” “Do unto yourself as you see best and hurt people along the way.” “Learn to lie, J…, it keeps me happy and is the only way you will ever get into heaven as St. Peter can’t tell if you are lying.”

I wish several minor bad things to happen to her often enough that she quits her job and goes to live in North Dakota because I know I will never ever go back there in my entire life. (I had a business trip there once and it was so boring.) Or maybe that she just joins a Jesus cult of some kind (you see she is 90% there with her ideology, to make the final transition to a doomsday cult for her would require no stretch of the mind. When I was working for Y2K things she told the Contingency Planning Group that I was working for that she had her food stockpiled for two months. Other loopy things like that make me think that she would do better in North Dakota where the wackos can live unadultered by other human existence.

I really don’t like her.
Sqrl

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Sqrl, I’m so sorry for the freak you have to work with. I hope she leaves, but hope that a lady I work doesn’t replace her.

This woman (I’ll call her Lyn-duh) is pure evil. She butts into everybody’s business and is a major backstabber. Just this morning, she came to my desk and asked, “What do you think of the new person, Maggie?” (can you believe someone would outright ask this question?)

I knew where she was going with this. I said, “I find her to be very friendly and very professional.”
Lin-duh says, “Don’t you think she’s prissy?”
I said, “no, professional.”
She says, “But I don’t think she’s going to joke around with everybody”.
“Right. She’s professional.”

And on and on and on. She wants me to admit that Maggie is prissy and won’t let up until I do. Then she can go around saying that I called Maggie prissy.

Lyn-duh called in sick for 2 months this spring, saying she had pnemonia. This was really hard for the division, who had to work extra to make up for the stuff she didn’t do. Finally, the bosses demanded a doctor’s slip (we’re very lax here) and she couldn’t produce one, so she said she’d work half days until she felt better (that’s from 1-5). She came back with a haircut, a dye job and a tan. I wouldn’t be surprised if they threw out our unlimited sick time policy because of her abusing it.

Oh, while she was working half days (and was totally fine, I know, I’ve had pnemonia a million times and finally got the vaccine) I suggested to her that she should probably be hospitalized if she’s had pnemonia for two months. She became VERY defensive, especially when I started asking her about aspects of the disease (as one in the know) and she didn’t know what I was talking about. She said, “I don’t know why you’re becoming hostile” as her voice kept rising and she got very red. I was nowhere near hostile, btw.

One more story: My boss sits in a window office almost across from Lyn-duh (I’m way down the hall). My boss went out on leave, and I kept the door to the office closed (security reasons, mostly, my boss has a lot of personal items, employee files, laptop, etc. in there). Lyn-duh kept begging me to open the door so she could have “sunlight”. (Which is impossible from the angle of the door in relation to Lyn-duh’s cubicle) I explained to her that I would not be leaving the door open. She whined about it for DAYS.

One day, I had to leave the office door open for another person and when I came back to close it, I found Lyn-duh snooping in there. I lost it and totally screamed at her (which is a lousy thing to do in general, but i was really pissed because she KNEW she wasn’t supposed to be in there and that the door should be CLOSED for christsakes).

She said, “I was just enjoying some sunlight” and got mad at me and said I had an attitude for telling her off. Riiiight. Luckily, the bosses all know what she’s up to and I doubt she’ll be around much longer.

Note: that door is SEALED now.

If she was a Jesus freak, I don’t know what I’d do.

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I know your pain Saxy. Can I call you that?

We can both send our evil coworkers to North Dakota. Have you ever been there? It is what I imagined the Christian Hell would be like. It is isolated, frigid in the winter time (it was cold in the summer when I was there last August), and just a creepy straight community. I looked for a gay bar in Bismark but there weren’t any. It was the capital and had a population of about 15,000. I really hated it.

HUGS!
Sqrl

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Every office has one don’t they SqrCub? It has been about five years ago since I worked with one evil bitch, she was just plain nasty but according to her she was good christian woman. HA!! YEAH RIGHT!!

I remember one time in particular I had left a very important report on my desk in the office that three secretaries shared. The report was due that day. I had left the office for a few minutes and when I came back the report had mysteriously disappeared. I asked in general if anyone knew where the report had went and the nice secretary tells me she didn’t know but the nasty evil bitch did not answer nor look at me. I then went and told my supervisor that the report was missing, he of course tells me to find it NOW! As I am going back to the office the nice secretary stops me in the hallway to tell me that as soon as I walked out of the office the nasty evil bitch tells her “She (me) should have asked me directly about the report, I have it. Hmph…” She had no business taking it off of my desk in the first place and then she didn’t even tell me because I did not specifically speak to her.

I have a lot more stories about her but I just get myself worked up when I talk about the evil nasty bitch.

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Sqrl, why does she want the room? Why would she even want to kick people out of training? That’s just weird.

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I’ve got a candidate for export, too. Apart from spending COUNTLESS hours on Recreation Committee crap and NEVER missing a cake, whether for a birthday, promotion, or going away (even for folks in COMPLETELY different divisions) and discounting the irritating phony laugh, she listens in on other peoples’ phone calls. Granted in tight quarters, one can’t help but overhear sometimes, but most of us try to be discreet and not notice personal conversations. THIS person, however, has been seen LEANING CLOSER to hear better, and then she’ll ask the individual about their personal call and offer advice. There was the added misfortune when I discovered that she knew my mother - I had to be especially careful what I said in the office. I almost turned cartwheels when she was reassigned to another office.

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Sqrl,

I got a solution for you. Make up a dummy invite for some important work function- party for boss’s birthday or something like that. Make it for a Friday evening, and make it the kinda thing that you wouldn’t wanna miss for office politics reasons. Hell, actually throw the damn party, but on her invitation make sure the address to go to is 639 NY ave. NW. That outta ruffle her feathers some!

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Or have it at Mr.P’s :smiley:

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SaxFace:

Do we work together?

Lyn-Duh sound very familiar. Except she sticks her nose in wehre it don’t belong, tacks her name to projects that she know nothing about and has that damn phony laugh.

Why is it that these people laugh at everything thay say?

“Hey can you help me out?”
“Sure…BWAHHAHAHAHA!!”
“um…right, I need the charts for XXXX”
“BWAHAHAHA…No problem. Need them now? BWAHAHAH!!”
etc…

I can’t understand how these people get to work in the morning.

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I think I need to double check my tense switches…cripes!

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magdalene, “Sqrl, why does she want the room? Why would she even want to kick people out of training? That’s just weird.”

I know it is weird. I should say that this is strictly a computer training room. If you don’t need the computers or the video teleconferencing there is no reason you should be in there. She wants the room for a meeting because it is a little nicer than the other rooms around here since we have to keep it that way. It is nice inside because of the training. There are trainers that come in from all over the country to use that facility. I think that she wants to kick people out of the room becuase she is a spiteful ho who gets a kick out of the moderate power that she overweilds.

Weirddave, a party at Mr. P’s (hhehehehe) boy would she be surprised. I believe the first address that you gave was for the Eagle if I am not mistaken. Mr. P’s is far more seedier as that is where all the hustlers hang out.

This is the most minor part of my job, so you know. I don’t think that I should be taking any type of harassment anyway but since this person always butts in it makes cross country training almost impossible and it makes me look bad because she can’t get it together. She has control of three conference rooms of her own, each one holding about 20 people but don’t have computers. If she wanted to kick someone out she should do it from one of her own. The computer training lab holds about 60 people. The times that she did things like this before she only had five to ten people in the lab none of which were on the computers. They displaced 58 people who travelled as far as Seattle on a schedule that was set 10 months in advance because she has a power connection (she works directly under my main boss) that takes precedence. I should say that the few times I ever had to talk to my main boss he said that he would never kick anyone out of training for a meeting that he would have. He later said that J… does a good job (she poked into the doors as if she was eavesdropping). I suppose she is his little pet who could do no wrong.

Oh, another thing that makes this woman really nasty. Last year I had to do a lot of travelling for conferences and focus groups. I was leading discussions about the importance of Contingency Planning and other things (talk about boring) any way, J… was in charge of getting our (the Contingency Planning Group) travel reimbursed. Our travel works by us having a company credit card that we pay for everything on and then submitting the receipts for processing. With my current coworkers who do this it usually takes about 5-10 days depending on where we fall in the processing cycle. I have never had it take longer than 10 days from my submittal with them. Well with J… I had a trip where I had to go to several places and racked up a bill of over $2500. Normally that wouldn’t have been a problem as in my current position I could pay it off immediately on recieving my bill as the processing is that quick. Well, I had to wait 4 months for that specific one. I and all of my coworkers who had been travelling more than me had our company credit cards turned off and couldn’t continue the travelling for two months as she would not process them. We ended up sending them out to another department to get the job mostly done for the lower level employees (like myself and three others which included an intern) and the upper employees who make closer to $80-100K (my travel boss, my real boss at the time, and an upper level coworker) were able to pay for the trip out of pocket as soon as they were able until they were reimbursed. The one intern who had to go back to school shortly after that last travel stint (well, after about two months after our last return) did not get reimbursed for 9 months. He was in school and the credit card company was harassing him over a reimbursement that he could not pay because he didn’t have $2500 to pay it off. So you know this credit card forces you to pay it off every month in total.

When I finally got my travel reimbursement I went to talk to the authorizing official not J… as J… only was supposed to enter it into the system. The authorizing official checks over the paperwork and makes sure that everything adds up correctly. It is an auditor type of position that makes sure you aren’t running a scam. Anyway, she said that she couldn’t imagine why it was held up for so long. She said that it just wasn’t entered onto the computer system in that whole time. It wasn’t as if $2500 even ate into the travel budget as she (the authorizing official) would often reimburse travellers for over $10K+ worth of travel expenses. Also, all the travel we did was pre-authorized. We weren’t allowed to travel unless we got the approval beforehand.

I really hate that woman.
HUGS!
Sqrl

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Squrly, of course you can call me Saxy, and of course I know all about North Dakota - I grew up in Wisconsin, it’s basically the same thing. I didn’t mention this, because I don’t like dancing on people’s graves, but I’m transferring to a different magazine in a couple weeks and won’t have to deal with Lyn-duh anymore. I hope you’ll be able to say something similar soon!

Pizzle, it’s possible we work together. Are you that cute boy down the hall who’s related to Giovani Ribisi? You’re describing this woman to a tee. Twin sister, perhaps?

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Twin?..TWIN!!!

Ow, my head hurts. Must lie down…

::darkness looms::

…

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What is Mr. Ps? What is the Eagle? Where are these places?

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Mr. P’s and the DC Eagle are both really seedy gay bars. Mr P’s is where the male hustlers hang out and the Eagle is a seedy leather bar that makes most other bars in the area look and feel nice in comparison.

HUGS!
Sqrl

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Calling a leather bar seedy is like calling water wet. If you want to flip people’s wigs, tell them about the Crew Club.

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Well, I wanted to give the impression that the Eagle is seedy even for a leather bar. Even the Lure in NYC isn’t as seedy in comparison although it is close. I have never been to the Crew Club to say one way or the other.

HUGS!
Sqrl

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Just hijacking the hell outta this thing:

All congrats, Sax, on your move to another mag. Y’know, I was always kinda uncomfortable with the right-wing leanings of your former magazine, so here’s to hoping that you’re moving to something that’s a little more, er, progressive. Are you still going to be on the masthead? Will your mother be able to brag to her friends?

Seriously, congratulations.

Waste
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GL, thanks, man. Wow, I didn’t expect that.

The old magazine has right-wing tendancies?! That’s new to me, as all the writers are tweed-wearing, scotch drinking, Mad Magazine reading hoodlums.

The new magazine is all about the internet, tech sites and tech gadgets, so there’ll be no politics. My mother is very proud.

You may now resume to bitching about co-workers!

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No, Sax, it didn’t really have right-wing tendencies. I’m beta testing some smart-assed response sending software, and there are still some bugs in the system.

“Tweed-wearing, scotch drinking, Mad Magazine reading hoodlums” - heh

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