The last few days have been awful. I've had bad times at my job before, but this was the worst of the worst. I don't think there have ever been more times I've almost walked out. I went so far as to take all my personal stuff on my computer and burn it onto a dvd so I could just delete it and walk away.
The trouble started on Monday. I've had some really hideous Mondays, but this I think will go down in history.
There was a special project we did for a county here in Minnesota, and there was an error when it printed and parts of words were missing. I mean, it was really obvious that it was a printing error, not them being idiots, but they were furious.
I think furious is even an understatement. We're supposed to be meeting with their lawyer.
Yeah, a lawyer. Of course my boss is terrified, she was certain she was going to be fired. Our company has fired people for a lot less. She thought they were going to demand she be fired (they still might, haven't had the meeting yet). Anyway, yesterday our head bosses told her she would not be fired so that was a relief.
So in the midst of all that, we've been having problems with our other co-workers. They've simply stopped working, yet we fear that they think we're the ones who aren't working because we have the ability to multi-task (balancing internet use with work).
We were right.
Monday afternoon one of the other managers handed my boss a sheet of paper and said "I don't even know what to tell you to do with this. I'm sorry."
It was an email from one of our problem coworkers to one of his employees. This employee basically called us out, complained that we never did anything, that none of the other employees liked us, said our skills were terrible...attacked us on every level. I read the e-mail. I wanted to kill this person. He attacked me personally, as well as her. And now I have to work with him and pretend like nothing is wrong.
I was furious. I used every four letter word in the book. I usually avoid confrontation like the plague, but I wanted to go right up to him that second and scream, "if you have a problem with me you better f*cking say it RIGHT NOW!" Really I would have done it.
But we couldn't let him know that we knew about the email.
So I had to go home and sit on my anger (with a few glasses of wine) and try to figure out why this person would turn on us like this (he's never acted as if he was hostile, not once.) I was a zombie. I was so angry. I'm still a bit angry, but I feel more justified now so I'm okay. I have no use for this person anymore, however. Unless it's work related, I'll never speak to him again. Unless he apologizes, and that won't happen because I'm not supposed to know about the email. I don't even think he apologized to my boss and he knows that she knows about the email. Someone else not in our department was involved in this email also, I won't be speaking to that person either for a long, long time. (they're not as guilty as he is, but still guilty.)
And I'd have to think he knows that I know about the email. He'd have to be an idiot not to. I've been freezing him out for two days. I think our head boss knows that I know because he barely said anything to me in our meeting, seeming like he figured I knew what was going on. And the owner of our company is furious. He was screaming about this issue to another department, complaining about "insubordination" and "respect." Of course they were totally confused because they had no idea what was going on. I was glad to hear that the owner of the company is on the side of me and my boss. And our other head boss? He called the problem people "a bunch of idiots." I laughed.
I feel better because now they know that they can't get away with crap like this. My boss and I have years at that company, we've paid our dues. We're at the top of that department and we worked our fingers to the bone getting there. We put blood sweat and tears into that job and I'm sorry, we earned some internet time some days! We shouldn't have to work our asses off like we did 4 years ago when we were just out of college. Apparently, some people have a problem also working their way up. They think some angry emails can get them our jobs.
Guess again ass holes.
I just love how it backfired on them. Because they thought that they could get rid of us by complaining about stupid things and everything came back in their face. "Let him who is without spot or blemish cast the first stone..." Well believe me, they weren't without spot. At all. And now it's all come out into the open and I've loved watching them fall off their high horses and realize they're one step away from being fired, because my boss and I have both been there in the last three days and I love seeing the bad guys in that position.
The guilty email writer wrote at one point: "no, I don't want to stay anonymous, use my name! Tell them it was me! I want it put up on a billboard on {the highway}."
So to him I say, ARE YOU HAPPY NOW? Because everyone knows what you did, we hate you, and it almost got you fired. So honestly, WAS IT WORTH IT???
Honestly, I wanted to print the email again, stick it on the bulliten board, highlight that sentance and write under it "Well you got your wish. Now it's here for everyone to see. And guess what? You're fired."
My one regret is that this got so out of hand, we all got our internet taken away. We're not allowed to do anything that's not work related anymore. We (my boss and I that is,) had a good balance going. And now it's all shot to hell because of these ass holes. I don't know what to do with myself anymore. I was a fast worker and had plenty of time for internet use. Now I have plenty of time to stare blankly at my computer. Wonderful.
Until tomorrow....(I'll let you know if they show up to work or not!)
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