Coworker is driving me nuts!

OH Sweetie, it’ll get better. I promise!

Ok this looks like an emergency…

*puts cuddly kitty + cadbry’s chocolate + todays speciality (feet massaging Spaniard)*

Hope this helps until Sylvester saves the day!

P.D. Your co-worker has obviously some personality issues and hides her insecurity by deliberately ignoring you. She is secretly jelous of your strong personality and values.

Hi HM…How’s the pain-management doing? I hope your not in any.

Oh Karin – Here are a load of champagne truffles and today’s kitten to cheer you up. I say that coworkers make or break a job, and it must be terrible to have to work with someone so horrible. Just think how sad her life must be if she has to behave that way to build herself up. Don’t worry, things will pick up for you soon!

Hi Susie (and everyone else!!)

I actually have been ‘graduated’ to going to the doctor every 3 months – they are going to see if this will work. Evidently my neck is getting stronger and if I can keep from doing anything injurious to myself (that’s a big if) they will NOT do the surgery until much later. Which is fine with me.

I am not on any meds for pain, only take them as needed. However, smart girl that *I* am I left them at home on the nightstand and I have a KILLER pain in my neck right now.

The man-friend is home today (he of the killer sinuses) so maybe I’ll make him go outside and get in his car and bring me my medicine.

Years and years ago, I worked in a dental office, and everything was fine until this one woman was hired. This woman was one of the most manipulative, lying, backstabbing people I have ever met. What made it particularly bad was that she made this big deal about being a ‘Christian’. She was the most UN-Christian person I’ve ever met!

So all of a sudden, once she’d arrived, all these mistakes were being made, and my boss was blaming me. I would try to explain that I hadn’t done it and that it was this other woman, but he wouldn’t hear it. He couldn’t understand why I was trying to blame it all on this other woman. She would act all flirty with him (but nothing inappropriate) and she just had him wrapped around her little finger – so as far as he was concerned, she could do no wrong. Well, after several months of this, I had had it. It wasn’t just this woman – all sorts of circumstances were combining so that I knew it was time to move on. But just before I left, a third woman who worked there and I sat down with the boss and tried to lay it on line about how horrible this other woman was. I was hoping that he would realize that since I was leaving anyway, I had no reaason to lie – I was going to be gone, so what difference did it make to me how she behaved? But he still wouldn’t listen.

SO – only 2 or three months after I left, my mom went in to get her teeth worked on, and my former boss said to her that he owed me a BIG apology and that I had been right all along about that woman. After I left, this other woman could no longer blame all her mistakes on me, and it became pretty clear that she was the one screwing up all the time. Things went downhill pretty fast after that and she had been fired by the time my mom went in for her appointment. So at least I felt vindicated! But I will never forget how horrible it was having to work with that woman.

Go Karin!

Just keep on doing that, Karin, she’ll come around.