It is not like me to be so petty....

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I need help. God this is difficult, I'm normally so easy going. Here goes.

I work in a 'team' of six people (including the supervisor) The job suits me and up until recently I was enjoying it. I've been here for eleven months and another girl started at the same time as me. From day one she has been saying that this was a 'stop gap', she is a graduate and working here is under her. She hates it. It is beneath her. She didn't spend years at university to work in here, yadda yadda yadda.

She's still here. And worse, she is sucking up to the supervisor BIG TIME. I have never worked with such a snob. Now the supervisor has taken a shine to her because her mum stays across the road from said snobby bitches house. Supervisor has arranged the seats so that snobby bitch is right next to her, and adopted her is some kind of right hand man.

What supervisor doesn't know is that snobby bitch is on the net looking at jobs constantly and bitching non stop about how much she hates the job - when supervisor is there snobby bitch is all gossip and simpers. She's a sly cow, the epitome of the office suck ass politician.

Now she's taken to sending me emails about everybody else and how cliquey they are, and occasional ones telling me to 'watch my back cause she's seen the supervisor checking on my work'.

I can't play these games. All I want is a quiet life. I am the least likely person in here to stand up for myself and she's cottoned on to this. In order to make herself look better she's loudly offering to 'help' other people who do not seem to know what they are doing and supervisor is lapping it up.

Please please please help me. How do I get rid of this leech or at least topple her lap dog position without looking like a 'grass' myself?

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Monday, 7 June 2004 11:09 (twenty-one years ago)

God she's sucking up everybodies ass! All she does is bitch about them when their backs are turned!

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Monday, 7 June 2004 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Is there any way you can just zone her out?

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Monday, 7 June 2004 11:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Tracer, she's tried, and look where she is now.

RP, do you have an HR department? If she's sniding on colleagues on company email that's not big or clever, is it?

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 7 June 2004 11:18 (twenty-one years ago)

HR are based in another office. The chain of command in here says I should speak to my supervisor first. Supervisor won't hear a thing said against her new pet, she sees her as her kind of 'ear on the office'. I did consider having a friend call up posing as a potential employer looking for a job reference. That would at least give supervisor some inclination that her pet is in fact looking for another job. That however could look fishy.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Monday, 7 June 2004 11:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Also you could tell Bitch that of course it's the supervisor's job to check on your work, THAT'S WHY THEY ARE CALLED SUPERVISORS. Sometimes the best thing is to call a bluff like that. There are ways, believe me. Ask her if she has been promoted to supervising you (she'll have to say she's not your boss, humiliating) and mention that sending snotty emails about colleagues is unprofessional. Save the bitchy emails in a folder and make some effort to socialise with the 'clique' she's trying to delineate to use to isolate you. She ain't in the clique either, in case you've not noticed. Don't complain about her to anyone but an HR person and especially not colleagues in the same grade etc. Save the emails for your next review and if she's still there, and still doing what you've asked her to stop doing, nail her to the fucking wall.

What has the supervisor said to you re. the Bitch?

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 7 June 2004 11:34 (twenty-one years ago)

If she's going on the internet (esp. on company time) to look for jobs, surely your IT department keeps records of all the employees' internet use and will have noted a tendency towards lots of hits on her machine for job sites, classifieds, etc? If she's been doing this for awhile (longer than a month for example) I'm surprised no one's said anything to her about it. Is there a way to bring that to someone's attention? Does your supervisor review the employees' computer use? Normally I think this spying kind of thing sucks, but maybe it could work to your advantage.

― sgs (sgs), Monday, 7 June 2004 11:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Supervisor has said nothing pointedly about her, though last friday she said "Somebody picked up on such and such a mistake you made" No guesses to who somebody is. The two of them are as thick as thieves. She's sitting there right now holding court as smug as you like. I wish she'd get her finger out and get a job if that IS her intention. It's difficult from my position at the end of the desk to integrate myself with them all - I'd have to shout - especially to the supervisor who is at the opposite end of the desk. I feel like I'm giving it 'poor me', but this bitch is really poisonous and I wish I wasn't the only one who can see through her.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Monday, 7 June 2004 11:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Rock a ski mask and cut the bitch eye out. She think she cute? Pas encore!

― LC, Monday, 7 June 2004 11:44 (twenty-one years ago)

x-post

intranet use isn't checked up on in here, we all use it quite regularly and it's okay to browse when you're not dead busy. It would probably be easy to turn round and say - "Have you found a new job yet?" but coming from me it would just look like I was trying to stick her in.

She's always got something to say about anything, I've never seen someone so obviously easy to pleased, she's like a dog rolling over to have her belly scratched.

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Monday, 7 June 2004 11:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Get a friend to pose as someone considering her for a job, then get said friend to ask to be put through to her supervisor for a reference.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 7 June 2004 11:47 (twenty-one years ago)

RP, if the others there are just seen by her as a clique the supervisor is her only friend in the office.

I am reminded of the story of the Bank of Ireland chief exec who just got booted from his job for using his office computer to book a hooker for his Vegas holiday. He had recently announced that IT jobs there would be outsourced to India so Spod's Revenge dictated that the BoI IT squad audited his computer for inappropriate use, and got their man.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 7 June 2004 11:47 (twenty-one years ago)

jab a pencil in her ear.

― Chris 'The Velvet Bingo' V (Chris V), Monday, 7 June 2004 11:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Mark, fake reference calls are totally (criminally) illegal by the way.

― suzy (suzy), Monday, 7 June 2004 11:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Seems like the only way. Since she started she's been going on about all these 'job offers' which I believe are completely fake ass. If she has been applying for jobs for eleven months and hates this place so much then I'm sure she would be on her way by now.

"I can't believe that there are people in here who have done this job for years - I mean it's so boring, my brain is melting, imagine this as a career"

Grrrr

― Rumpy Pumpkin (rumpypumpkin), Monday, 7 June 2004 11:58 (twenty-one years ago)

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