Thursday, April 3, 2008

Work Rant

A coworker has pissed me off yet again. Over the past two years, I've been able to turn the other cheek, but it has been really hard these past few days. Partly because I might actually be out of here soon, and partly because I found something that might actually justify legal proceedings. Yesterday, I had to tell our HR guy (oh, excuse me, Director of Human Resources) to quit talking to me because his unethical ideas of how things should be around here and distorted notions of how things truly are around here were making me sick to my stomach. Really what I said was "this conversation is going nowhere" and thankfully he got the message without my having to kick him out of the library. And that's all I have to say about that.

So today, some loser from admissions (yes, he is a loser because he earned a degree from this joke of a university; therefore, the only place he can find employment is said joke of a university) actually accused my part-timer of drinking on the job simply because she has repeatedly helped an alcoholic student when nobody else would. When I calmly stated that she doesn't drink, he actually dropped his jaw. So I proceeded to inform him that she has been suffering from pancreatic cancer for the past year and a half, and we are lucky that she chose to continue working two jobs. Could that be the reason she seems a bit off sometimes? Hmm. I hope he feels like the dumb-ass he truly is and refrains from participating in the petty gossip that permeates this toxic workplace, at least for a few hours. Who am I kidding? I'm sure he ran off and told the first person he saw about his run-in with the librarian bitch (oh, excuse me, Director of Library Services Bitch).

2 comments:

  1. You are awesome!!

    And I know a thing or two about what you're going through.

    Email me; we'll talk.

    ReplyDelete
  2. I think Workrant is a great way to blow off some steam without getting fired. Unless, of course, your boss catches you on the site...In that case, it's a hell of way to go out!

    http://job.ology.com/2009/02/25/workrantcom-rant-about-work-at-work/

    -Jared J. H. Catapano (ology.com)

    ReplyDelete