all the ducks are swimming in the water
So on Thursday night I stayed at work until 6.30pm finishing a piece of work that I wouldn't have had to do if a certain colleague of mine, who I shall name 'Mick', had been doing his job for the last eighteen months.
On Friday morning I emailed the completed piece of work around the business, and on Friday afternoon my boss went into a meeting with Mick and Mick's boss. At the last minute she told me that I wasn't allowed to come, even though I had all the answers, which surprised me a bit. When she came back three hours later she immediately called me over for a 'chattette'.
It turns out that what Mick had been doing (nothing) and what he'd been telling his boss he'd been doing (everything) were very different things, and Mick's boss had been more than a little surprised to see such a large and complete piece of work about Mick's project come from me, rather than the man himself. At the very same time my boss was telling me this, Mick and his boss were sharing 'feedback' which, my boss assured me, was universally negative for Mick.
Sadly, Mick is a very aggressive person, and my boss was telling me this info to warn me that the coming week might be a little 'choppy' for me, by which she meant "he will probably try to shiv you in the exercise yard".
Equally sadly, I am on the brink of destruction every second of every day at the moment because I can't cope with my workload and the prospect of having to field someone else's rage about something which is 100% not my fault is distressing in the extreme. One wrong move from anyone these days and I'm on the edge of tears - a good shouting at would just about see me off.
On the plus side, today is month end which means HOLIDAYS GET RESET TOMORROW! I can have a day off for the first time since I set foot back on British soil in September last year <3
Now if it would just stop raining
On Friday morning I emailed the completed piece of work around the business, and on Friday afternoon my boss went into a meeting with Mick and Mick's boss. At the last minute she told me that I wasn't allowed to come, even though I had all the answers, which surprised me a bit. When she came back three hours later she immediately called me over for a 'chattette'.
It turns out that what Mick had been doing (nothing) and what he'd been telling his boss he'd been doing (everything) were very different things, and Mick's boss had been more than a little surprised to see such a large and complete piece of work about Mick's project come from me, rather than the man himself. At the very same time my boss was telling me this, Mick and his boss were sharing 'feedback' which, my boss assured me, was universally negative for Mick.
Sadly, Mick is a very aggressive person, and my boss was telling me this info to warn me that the coming week might be a little 'choppy' for me, by which she meant "he will probably try to shiv you in the exercise yard".
Equally sadly, I am on the brink of destruction every second of every day at the moment because I can't cope with my workload and the prospect of having to field someone else's rage about something which is 100% not my fault is distressing in the extreme. One wrong move from anyone these days and I'm on the edge of tears - a good shouting at would just about see me off.
On the plus side, today is month end which means HOLIDAYS GET RESET TOMORROW! I can have a day off for the first time since I set foot back on British soil in September last year <3
Now if it would just stop raining
posted by Lucy at 11:38 am
4 say hwÆt
