izzybella

I think if you’re asking yourself daily, “when is it enough?” the answer is probably now.  I’ve been working here for almost ten years and there’s this one person who is consistently hostile, back-stabby, ultra-political and insincere.  I have no problem with people who openly dislike me. It’s a fact of life.  Not everyone is going to think I’m as swell as my mom does.  I utterly loathe people who are sweet to my face but tear me up behind my back.  This particular person makes up to me like she thinks I rate somewhere near sliced bread in terms of cleverness and usefulness to the world.  But behind my back she tells everyone else in the building that I don’t do anything; I don’t deserve to have my current position of admin I because I don’t actually have that difficult a job.  She questions my personal and work ethics.  She’s accused me of lying on my time card–a hypothisis she arrived at after snooping through my personal files in order to spy on me.  (I haven’t by the way-ordinarily that’d go without saying, but I have a sudden and constant need to defend myself)  When my co-worker, tired of the pettiness, defected to a different department, this particular employee took it upon herself to “meet” with the supervisor of that department and said the following: “You should have talked to me before hiring X-I could have told you some things.”  She’s not HR and it’s none of her business.  She sticks her nose in everywhere and spreads innuendo and flat-out lies about every one in the building.  There are people who won’t submit their mileage reimbursments because they don’t want to have to deal with her.  See, I’m nothing special-she pretty much treats everyone like crap, including her lunch buddy about whom she mouthed (as said lunch buddy walked out of her office) “I hate her.”  So my question is how has she managed to go so long without anyone calling her on her BS?  I work in a tolerant atmosphere-an entire building full of social workers, but enough is enough.  I love working here but I can’t stand working with someone so inherently dishonest.  I have always justified staying because there’s someone in every single office like that-toxic.  But it really is enough.

I think it’s time for me to job-hunt.