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XP: Pissy CW
in 9 to 5
She is bitchy all. the. TIME!! I mean over anything. Big, small,
significant, insignificant, she is always pissed off, and it wears on
me! I don't know how to block her out, I can't talk to her (she's one
of those people who'll just talk over you if she disagrees), and our
supervisors know about her attitude (we report to different people but
work in the same small office space. It's complicated). I just know I
am going to verbally slap the hades out of her one of these days, and I
don't want to make our situation worse since we work in such small
quarters. She also insinuates that I don't pitch in enough, but my job,
and therefore my particular responsibilities, is different than hers.
We used to have the same job, but I got a semi-promotion in October and
even though my work area is basically the same, what I do is different.
I help out in her area when I can, but some days I just can't, and I'm
just not available for certain things that she does. It doesn't help
that we're short staffed either, which has lead to some of her constant
crabbiness. And not to be snobby, but most of us in that department
have a masters or nearly so and have worked in different office
environments, and she's in her 40s working her first office job (she's a
horse person and mostly did horse training stuff before) and hasn't
finished her undergrad. I just don't think she has a good grasp of how
things go in an office environment (the good and the bad) even though
she's been there almost 3 years, and she doesn't have the same sort of
"office" skill set that the rest of us have. I'm just at my wits end.
If anyone has any advice, I welcome it. Thanks for letting me vent.
Re: XP: Pissy CW
I'll be honest and admit I may have not had the best solution, but I'm work with a similiar personality. And she's tried to bully me a couple of times and I was very direct with her. I knew from the get go that killing her with kindness wasn't going to be effective. She's a chronic complainer and if you give her an inch, she'll take a mile. So when my CW started getting snippy with me I would say things to her like, "I don't care how you feel about it, I was told X, Y and Z." And if she was just complaining in general, I would "at least" her to death. "Be grateful you have a job." "Good thing that is your biggest problem."
She's finally backed off a bit, I think I finally annoyed her enough she stays away from me. But I agree with you, it would be so much nicer to work with nicer people. I have no time, or energy, for disgruntled people. I know I have my bad days, but I keep it to myself.