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Maz

Maz

Guru
User76 said:
We have just had a new woman transferred into our office for 6 months. She started about 8.30, and has already told us of her friends suicide, her 'medical' issues, and how pi$$ed off she is with the office move. She has made herself a coffee, and didn't offer to do us one, she has moaned about being put on the desk in the corner with her back to the wall, she apparantly is used to having a ...wait for it.... coat hook near her desk. She doesn't like Radio2, it's too noisy and boisterous, she thinks we should have a smarter dress code, and she doesn't eat Jaffa cakes, and has suggested we start a fund for biscuits so we have a range available. She also tutted that I sat here having my porridge at my desk after cycling in, which incidentally she thought was 'silly'.

It's going to be a long 6 months:sad: Any suggestions?
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You shouldn't have to put up with that. Get a divorce.
 
Crankarm

Crankarm

Guru
Location
Nr Cambridge
User76 - I think she .................... fancies you :wacko:.
 
Cubist

Cubist

Still wavin'
Location
Ovver 'thill
Jim said:
Might help to realise you're not alone ... www.workrant.com
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RANT:

Name: Jenny

From: uk

Job: invisable pa

I to am hated by my co workers.........also for reasons unknown, they all seem to gang up in one school yard huddle and you just know by looking at there faces they are talking about you.....or is it just me.....is the paranoia setting in!

My boss whom i thought was a very nice lady at the start...has seemed to turn into sharon osbourne on coke, the other members of my team are like a bunch of kids........i have found myself just wanting to sit in my office with the door closed pretending to be very busy.....when in fact i need to go to the toilet and dare not go outside...................i feel 6 not 36!

Well that said......soloutions? are there any or is it do my job, go home, get paid and stuff the lot of them(and i havent swore once, see there not getting to me!!! hum!).

Just a little note also to UNKNOWN from South Africa.... your post moved me, i feel for you honestly...........you do not need to see god for him to listen, have faith, it is in there with you all the time, hang in there your time will come.
Ranted on: March 1, 2010

Looks to me like she already posted .............:wacko:
 
vernon

vernon

Harder than Ronnie Pickering
Location
Meanwood, Leeds
Landslide said:
Nonsense!

One portion =
Mcvities_Jaffa_Cakes_Triple_Pack_36s.jpg


:wacko:
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I'd call that a starter
 
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661-Pete

Guest
Arch said:
Ok, she sounds like a bit of a nightmare but...

Joking about suicidal friends is a bit off. I suspect more people on here than you imagine have lost a friend, or relative, to suicide. Call me sensitive, and ok, I probably wouldn't have mentioned it on first acquaintance like she has, but it can affect people very deeply.

Give her time to settle in. She might turn out to be ok. Or a horror, in which case, be glad it's only 6 months.
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ComedyPilot said:
Arch, whilst I respect your comments immensely, I too have lost friends to all manner of endings, from road 'accidents' to illness and also one to suicide.

One thing I would not do is try to curry favour with people I don't know with an opening gambit of, 'My friend topped themselves'.

It is disrespectful to the new people and to the memory of the passed one.

All this is IMO, and I respect your view to disagree.

This woman has (IMO) overstepped the mark, and is using her friends (alleged) passing as a trading pawn for friendship or as an ice-breaker. That to me (IMO) is an abhorent thing to do.

Still love you though......[hugs] :ohmy:
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I'm with Arch here (too old for a hug though - sorry :biggrin:).

We know nothing about this person other than what's been put in the OP. It may be that the mention of the friend's suicide (incidentally, why the quote marks around the word 'friend' if you please, CP?) came about because of what someone else said to her: it may have stirred up painful memories. As I said, we don't know - only User76 is in a position to know, and ought to give this woman a fair chance. As Arch says, if she does turn out to be insufferable (and I know all about colleagues who've been that), well then's the time to wish for her to move elsewhere.

But until then.... FFS, she's had only one day in the job!
 
wafflycat

wafflycat

New Member
Location
middle of Norfolk
Landslide said:
Nonsense!

One portion =
Mcvities_Jaffa_Cakes_Triple_Pack_36s.jpg


:ohmy:
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How about

http://www.pimpthatsnack.com/project/351/

http://www.pimpthatsnack.com/project/332/

http://www.pimpthatsnack.com/project/8/

Decent sized portions... :biggrin:
 
ComedyPilot

ComedyPilot

Secret Lemonade Drinker
Location
The Kingdom of Yorkshire
661-Pete said:
I'm with Arch here (too old for a hug though - sorry :sad:).

We know nothing about this person other than what's been put in the OP. It may be that the mention of the friend's suicide (incidentally, why the quote marks around the word 'friend' if you please, CP?) came about because of what someone else said to her: it may have stirred up painful memories. As I said, we don't know - only User76 is in a position to know, and ought to give this woman a fair chance. As Arch says, if she does turn out to be insufferable (and I know all about colleagues who've been that), well then's the time to wish for her to move elsewhere.

But until then.... FFS, she's had only one day in the job!
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Yes, it may be that it was something somone said that triggered the divulgence of information, but that wasn't how it read in the OP. :ohmy:

On the 'friend' front, we only have her word (as regaled by Maggot) that this friend even exist/s/ed. :biggrin:

I also stand firm with my thoughts on a woman that can enter an office at 08:30, and by 09:08 WE know about her dis-satisfaction at the transfer, her solo (selfish) coffee trips, her health, her dislike of jaffa cakes, her urge to have the biscuit club re-arranged and not to forget her 'friend' and their (still alleged) passing.

I am sure I am wrong, but how unproffesional is it to get all that out in under 38minutes - when you are meant to be working?

Just my view.

Please respect it, as I do yours.

If you don't want a hug, then all the more for Arch. :sad:
 
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