Thursday, February 09, 2006

Read Gulliver's Travels, it has a section you might enjoy as it's about little people...

I like my job. I like who I work with. Except one person. She needs to be brought down quite a few pegs. (I'd say cut down to size, but that would take awhile...) If you ever meet me, or know me, you'll see I'm pretty laid back and not much gets me upset. Like someone drinking my Coke I left in the refrigerator at work. Unopened yesterday, gone today... I figure someone needed it and didn't have the money or something. But I digress.

A certain coworker obviously is cynical about what I've said I've done in my life, whom I've met, etc. Hey, it's her perogative. She doesn't acknowledge you if you say good morning, etc. Not worth my time to worry about. Except that when she wants to say something about me, she passes notes to a friend of hers. Like we're in 6th grade at the lunch table. Yeah. Or her latest tactic is to get her friend going while we sit at the break room table and mock me, like today she goes "I know Mariah Carey, I met her when I was umm in England training for..." and then her voice trails off. I sit there and read my Cycle Sport International mag and inwardly laugh at her. Yet I think what bothers me most is how rude and immature it is. I mean, grow up. Get on the list for a spine transplant, grow some backbone, and if you have something to say to me, say it. How off base am I thinking this?

I'm sorry for her in that she's that small a person, and that she's never left Kingston in her life and is so petty. As of three years ago I was able to say I had done all the things I wanted to as a kid in my life already. While everyone else was off in college and then marriage and/or careers, I was doing all kinds of stuff. Since I have no kids and am a free spirit, I took every oppurtunity I could in my life. So I'm not rich, but I'm satisfied so far, and it's getting better.

So now it's time to be prepared to deliver her comeuppance when the oppurtunity arises. It's simple and I'm already prepared. Nothing like having the truth and proof on your side readily available...

2 comments:

Lora said...

Oh, I'm so dying to know who this person is. There are so many people we went to school with that I can place with this behavior and so many people that I am complete unsuprised to see when I go back to visit, still hanging out with the same people they were hanging out with in junior high.

Mike said...

Oh, this person graduated KHS in 97. But yes, I see the same behavior patterns I remember from school when I see the Kingston "lifers". Sad...