One of the people I currently support is our corporate attorney. She, putting it nicely, can be quite dramatic at times (actually... all the time). She bitches and moans about EVERYTHING and EVERYONE at work (never to their face...she just likes to vent) ...and she is always putting on a drama scene!!! And, me being her admin, I get to listen to her griping all the time. It's depressing, and her mood swings are very wide. I have learned not to trust her. If she talks that bad about people behind their back, what does she do with me when I'm not around?
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Sometimes I have to walk around her like I'm on egg shells - I never know if she is in a mood. Sometimes, completely unexpected, she lashes out on me - she makes things bigger than they really are. What makes me angry is I can take the heat and she can chew out my @$$ if I have screwed up or made a mistake, and I can take a few blows without fighting back, but I don't deserve to be repeatedly treated in such a disrecpectful manner just because I am her "admin" and that I am conveniently there at the wrong time and the wrong place. She doesn't treat anybody else like that, so why me??? Grrrr!!!
In the past 1 1/2 years that I've worked with her, she's lashed out on me several times - totally unexpected and uncalled for. I put up with it without saying anything, but after lengthy chilling effect, I call a "time out" and we have ourselves a little "chat" to clear the air. Enough is enough - I don't care who you are or who I am!!
Anyway, the latest string of her moodiness towards me ended in a little "chat" that we had last week. We had a good talk and we cleared the air. Of course, her little tirade was overexaggerated (as usual) because she thought I was putting her work lowest on the totem pole priority over our boss...she was having herself a little pity party. (Oh geez...give me a break and don't include me in your pity parties!!) So, at the end of our little chat, I informed her that I don't understand why she treats me the way she does. I asked her if she did this to anybody else in the company. She said "no" and I told her that in all the years that I've worked for this company, nobody...NOBODY has ever treated me the way she does... and I told her that frankly I was tired of her ways of treating me and if it happened one more time, I was going to file a complaint with HR... Enough already!
So... end of story is she has been very nice to me. Almost syrupy nice. Today she came in "grumpy" again. (heavy sigh). Oh well... Fortunately with our reorganization, I won't be working for her any more. Somebody else gets to put up with her over-dramatized actions.
She even treats her husband like a child. Hmmm... I wonder who wears the pants in her family???
I know this was long... Thanks for listening to my vent, guys!
SNA
