Wars Have Started For Less
Disenchantment with work is still coursing through my veins like a potent narcotic this morning – and this might very well account for my current state of over reaction.
I am positively fuming.
Now it’s never a good idea to bad mouth one’s work colleagues on a public blog so I’ll keep things as cryptic and anonymous as possible.
Basically I’m doing my damnedest to arrange some Fire Safety training for the staff. No big thing really except trying to get everybody together in one place at the same time is proving difficult. Either our staff can make it or the trainer can’t. However, I’m hoping my perseverance has finally paid off and that a mutually agreeable date has at last been settled upon.
It’s taken weeks to get this far.
Gallingly I come in to work this morning to find an email from a work colleague (who I have obliquely bitched about before) copied in to me and the Boss, expounding the point of view that she her glorious self has successfully organized training for all the staff.
Feathers.
Spitting.
Out of my mouth.
Wasn’t it Bruce Lee who said that any object at all can be a weapon? I’m casting my eyes over my workstation as I type and they are alighting hungrily on the stapler, a hole punch, a Vlad The Impaler collection of assorted Biros, a Rolodex – even the Tipp-ex.
Dark fantasies are forming in my mind.
I need help.
Can someone either supply me with valium or an alibi?
posted by Steve @ Wednesday, July 09, 2008
14 comments
14 Comments:
How very odd. I have had "dealings" with two work associated today who have both managed to wind me up through their rudeness. One of them I have responded to by email and given him what for, only for him to come back to me with even more accusations and rudeness. Lovely!
As for your "colleague" stealing your thunder, what a damned cheek!
One of those days, eh...?!
Bizarre, isn't it OC? You'd think our respective work colleagues would have realized by now that we are right while they are inevitably wrong! Just as well I'm in a militant mood today - just attended a union meeting: I'm officially on strike next Wednesday and Thursday! Power to the people!
YES! I have always fantasized about whether one of those wall staplers would actually really imbed itself in someone's forehead. Maybe you could have an 'accident' in which you tripped over and accidently stapled this lady's mouth shut?
Ooh Emma, that is so tempting... except if I had an "accident" I'd be the one who'd have to compile a risk assessment about it afterwards. Hmm. Could be worth the paper work though... ;-)
Every office has one of these. As she organised it all, wouldn't it be funny if it went a bit wrong. If half the people turned up on the wrong day a bit. Or slightly in the wrong place. Don't suppose you have her password...
Maybe proposing a hearty round of applause at the end of the event in gratitude for all the hard work she has put in would shame her?
Brother this woman either knows no shame or is on such close terms with it she sees it as an old family friend! And just to clear up a slight misunderstanding - she hasn't arranged for alternative training: she's claimed the glory for mine! Grr!
AST (Welsh for bitch!)
Revenge is the only answer, mate. And as it is a dish best served cold, we have time to think up something wonderful! Maybe you could give out her name and contact details to next passing Mormon/Save the Whales petition?? I used to get Readers Digest to send all manner of things to people who annoyed me...those guys don't know how to take people off their mailing list.
oh stinky winky.
but i am still lol about your Bat Bogey Hex idea!!
Ally, thanks for insult - one for the personal phrase book methinks!
Amanda, this person is a real snob so a subscription to something suitably down at heel would be an apt revenge. Hmm. Maybe I ought to ask for an information pack from Alcoholics Anonymous on her behalf? Or join her up to the Bernard Matthews fan club...?
Thanks Kate, yeah - I'd so love to be able to do it!
there is a part in the "get smart" movie where one agent (the rock) goes up to an annoying coworker...asks if this is his stapler...then staples a piece of paper to his head...would that work for you?
i know a couple it would do for me...only instead of a stapler i would prefer a nail gun
Daisy, you're a lady with style. I'd like to borrow your tailor.
Perhaps she is after your job and has gone in for the kill while you are feeling under the weather. She is certainly out to humiliate you in front of boss by the sound of it.
Such bullies deserve exposure.
And hey, we can all be competant, but few of us are inspired to be!
When we have to organise fire etc training - we try and do it in two halves so only half the staff have to muster at a time, leaving the place to carry on running under the other half.
Unfortunately Laura, this mumsy-bully is also best mates with the boss and "has his ear" as the saying goes... exposure in her case won't work.
I've set my sights on assassination instead...!
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