More work drama
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samsomIf I wasn't sitting in the same office space as her, I'd bring popcorn to watch all this but...
Backstory. A week ago last Friday, CB (crazy!bitch) had a run in with someone else who works on our floor. Someone who tried to get a file from CB, because she's under her own time constraints. CB wouldn't give it up, even though she's got a backlog going back three weeks of files (not her fault). They got into it, because unlike others who've worked there longer, this girl, S, wouldn't take CB's (mostly) bullshit reasons for being unwilling to give up the file. Which is that she OMGNEVER gets them back when peeps borrow them.
So that was run-in number one.
Run in number two happened with our supervisor. CB had turned in about twelve 'time off requests' for one and two hour increments, and they all got approved. This is 'use it or lose it' time. She can't take an entire day or even half a day off because she's under this impression that the office would fall apart without her. Really, it's because she's got nothing else to do but hang out with her cats and watch Netflix on her computer ( she has no cable because she doesn't want to pay for it). Only, CB never left when she was supposed to, staying over fifteen minutes or so to 'clean up' her desk or take care of an emergency. That would be fine, but she told our supervisor that the woman would have to redo her time off requests to reflect the time she stayed (without prior permission) because she "wants her fifteen minutes". CB did this three times. So she feels she's owed 45 minutes.
Understandably, our supervisor, T, got upset. She's got seven or eight employees to keep track of, because a few of them have also asked for this 'use it or lose it' time. So it's kind of a lot of trouble to go through twelve requests from the same employee and adjust them every single time CB chooses to stay.
I should add that CB has time to do her job in an eight hour work day, but when she comes in in the morning, she spends fifteen minutes minimum in the office of this one person and they chit-chat about how the country's going down the toilet and how the President is really some foreign-born weirdo intent on running the country into the toilet. Then when I get to work, if she's not doing reports, she tells me ALL ABOUT HER CATS, each one, and any documentary she's watched the night before. This takes up another fifteen minutes, even though I'm doing my best not to extend the time by making non-commital comments as I work, sometimes with my back to her. She does all this either standing next to my desk or swiveled around in her chair sipping her coffee.
So my supervisor, again in front of me, tells CB that she needs to manage her time better and leave when she's approved to leave, and if she stays, then that's her choice but she's not adjusting her time any more. OMG. CB goes unhinged and argues with her supervisor, basically telling her she CAN'T leave if M, one of our main guys, asks her to do an emergency transfer or whatever. T gets into with her, telling her she knows how to do transfers and if this happens, to get her or ask M if the next morning was okay. Whatever. Just manage her time better.
CB can't stand to be told someone else can do her job.
Not suprisingly, CB called in sick last Monday, and Tuesday, and Wednesday, and Thursday for Thursday and Friday.
Now, she does have a crucial function, and it is hard when she's gone, because she's never written an SOP for her desk (she's worked it for eight years now) and she won't train anyone to be her back up because "she doesn't have the time."
But between T and M, and DS, our main guy, they got it done.
They also released ALL of her files back to the file room that isn't being seen tomorrow, three weeks worth. They redid all her carts, and the boxes (for the files) are hell and gone and mixed up. They did her lists in a different way than she's done it before and they're going to tell her upon her return in which order the files should be seen (by date instead of another way). For CB, who is so controlling and kind of paranoid, this will be like walking back into her house after it's been robbed and destroyed, and then someone moving all her furniture around.
They agreed that CB has too much assigned to her and will be taking some responsibility from her desk (something she's told me she's afraid of), because this seems to be the main reason she gives for staying over nearly an hour every day, and it's not good when an employee stays beyond their assigned hours. They've said this before when she's called in like this, but never followed through. It's been too easy to just let her do it. However, this time I think they're fed up enough that it might happen.
My feelings for CB are equal parts pity and dislike, mixed in with a little PTSD. She drives me batshit crazy with her complaints about things that, to me, aren't that big a deal. She drives me batshit crazy with her fangirling over Christianity and animals and distrust of science, the news, and pretty girls.
She drives me plain batshit crazy.
So on the one hand, I'm getting some morbid satisfaction out of the powers that be taking away some of her 'power'. On the other hand, I feel so incredibly sorry for her because, of how she chooses to live her life, work is a major part of her life. MAJOR. It gives her the control I think she needs to feel over things. Taking that from her might trigger something no one can anticipate. On the third hand, it's not good for work to give one person, who's slightly unstable, so much of the function of the company.
I'm not looking forward to this next week. My guess is that she will be incredibly calm on Monday, but as soon as she's told she's not going to handle the week's files being seen, she's going to call in the rest of the week.
The worst part is, DS wants me to be her back up on her desk. I also think they want to give me some of her responsibility. T says it's because DS thinks I'm awesome. I say it's because I get along with CB (through considerable effort and much gritting of teeth), and DS believes she'd be most receptive to training me. Yeah. I don't think he knows her like that. He was joking last Tuesday about me doing both hers and my desk, and that I'd have the whole office space to myself. HAHA, motherfucker /doakes.
So. Does anyone want to change places with me for a little bit?
Please? Anyone?
Bueller?
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Date: 2011-06-19 11:43 pm (UTC)My CB was actually my supervisor for 6 horrible horrible months. And do you know what she did for those 6 months? Nothing. Well, she worked on story times. THAT'S ALL. For 8 hours a day she planned story times. She refused to work the reference desk, refused to plan programs, refused to cover my lapsits for me when I was off, refused to do anything that wasn't planning story times. Worst 6 months of my LIFE.
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Date: 2011-06-19 11:56 pm (UTC)CATS. Every single stinkin' day. "My little girl hated her soft food" and "my big boy didn't climb out of this box that my microwave came in and then I woke up this morning and couldn't find him and then omg, this is so cute, finally found him under the sink and he looked sooo cute, haha and blah blah blah" shooooot meeeeeee.
And my CB does the same thing, refuses to do things she's told. Doesn't go to unit meetings, doesn't update the outcards in the file room so people go to ME instead of her because "she doesn't have time". Refuses to talk to DS for the rest of the day if DS happens to focus on someone else about business while she's talking to him.
IF she ever advanced to supervisor, I am SO OUT OF THERE.
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Date: 2011-06-20 12:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-06-20 02:49 am (UTC)At least I hope she blows one and gets fired, because I don't want you to have to live through the hell of training with her. I do feel sorry for her to some extent, but it sounds like she brought this on herself.
Good luck tomorrow and be sure to keep us updated!
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Date: 2011-06-20 03:03 am (UTC)I'd be surprised if she gets fired but I do anctipicate drama-rama. Having to share an office with her, I can only say it will be horribly awkward to work in that frozen silence I know will take place. And training me. FUGITABOUTIT. She'll find a way around that, I promise you.
On my generous days, I try very hard to lighten her up by joking with her because I honestly do feel sorry for her. On the bad days, when she's extra crunchy ragey crazy, I wish she'd go away quietly. I've had such a great time at work this last week, it felt like a real vacation.
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Date: 2011-06-20 01:03 pm (UTC)Err, pretty girls? Distrust of sciences and news is pretty standard tinfoil-hat!Christian stuff, but the last part sounds hilarious.
So. Does anyone want to change places with me for a little bit?
Please? Anyone?
*raises hand* Mind taking lecture notes for my summer classes instead? :D
I find your stories to be morbidly amusing/fascinating than anything else. Why get irritated with crazy bitches when you can derive humor from them instead?
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Date: 2011-06-21 01:09 am (UTC)Which, now that I think about it, why does she like me?? O_o
LOL
Why get irritated with crazy bitches when you can derive humor from them instead?
When you are forced to sit in the same small office space with them, they're only funny when they go away. When they're there, it's all I can do not to jump out of a window. Or throw her out of one.
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Date: 2011-06-21 01:29 am (UTC)Maybe you're just easy to get along with. :)
Or throw her out of one.
Just gotta make it look like an accident!
CB: *leaning out the window*
Samson: *makes sure coast is clear* *shove*
CB: AHHHH!
Samson: "OH MY GOD SHE SLIPPED AND FELL OUT! SOMEBODY HELP HER!"
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Date: 2011-06-21 01:43 am (UTC)