Skirmishes

So... unlike the girls before me, I'm not one to take blows thrown at me without fighting back and not without reason either. If I'm going to be harassed, put down, and bullied, there's no way I'm taking that all lying down. I just plain refused. Just because I'm young and inexperienced does not mean I'm an idiot.

The office manager and I are basically doing skirmishes throughout the day because she's doing all she can to bully me and I'm fighting back all the time to stop her from harassing me. She's unbelievable =_=

This all started two weeks ago and has been an ongoing feud ever since. I try to keep it as professional as possible, but she will stop at nothing to make a person feel bad. Rather than feel bad, I can feel myself simmering with all her insults and unreasonableness. According to the girls, I'm actually handling it all pretty well -- well no kidding, I worked as a waitress for six years, I can take just about anything thrown at me like this.

Anyway, she would give out weird instructions and then ask later whose stupid idea it was, when it was her idea to begin with. She would also make you dig through a mountain of folders to find one trust tax return in order to prove it to you that it was not finalized, but unluckily for her, I prepared the returns for the family related to that trust so I have a better understanding of what happened rather than her so I ended up proving her wrong instead.

There are times when I give her a binder and instructions, and then she would come back with a label or divider inserter and when you can't find the binder, she demands to know what you did with that binder, but then she will go and come back like "Oh, I have it." And mind you, this is after she makes you feel like you just lost the world's most precious diamond or something.

Yesterday was the best yet. As I was walking down the hallway, she whips around the corner so I jump up in alarm 'cause she startled me. Then she comes to my office and demands to know why I jump up like that, was I afraid a lot as a child? (WTF!?) I just state that I get startled easily in general, it's no secret. She says that I need to work on it, and because I wanted her out of my office, I just agreed and hoped she would leave it be, but she keeps going on about it and how no one does it. I'm like "You came out from the corner so fast, it took me by surprise." She's like "Well, I walk fast, there's nothing I can do about it." *rolling my eyes at this point* She then tells me to go get Jeannie, who's in the file room, and she says that she's going to pop out from the corner to see if she will jump like me. I narrow my eyes to slits and gave her this "Are you serious?" expression. I stated in a cold voice, "No, I'm the only one like this so there's no need. This is not productive at all, I have more important things to be doing than going to grab Jeannie just so you can see if she jumps or not." Which is true, I'm working and she wants me to engage in this farce!? O-M-G. She's got nothing better to do.

We've just been clashing nonstop and I'm not going to let her punch holes in me without giving her a fight. She wants to put me down? Well, too bad, I'm not going to let her. God, she really has nothing better to do.

Everyone's been checking in with me to see if she's been picking on me and since it's my own problem, I just say that it's ok and I'm dealing with it. They tell me that I shouldn't have to deal with it 'cause it's very unprofessional for her to be doing this to me -- which is true -- but I feel that it will waste more time to dish it all out than just to fight back and then let it go. Well, at least people care about me so that's nice to know.

On a good note by the forces of karma, my boss told her to take tomorrow off. I think word about how she's been treating me reached his ears so he's punishing her. Thank god.