I woke up this morning with indigestion. Today was finally the day of the suite meeting with the VA- specifically the one co-worker with whom, I don't get along.
Today, I was supposed to confront her of all the crap she's been putting me through.
Today, she was going to tell me what a little $^&%* I am so we could finally put our differences aside and coexist peacefully.
Well, that didn't quite work out the way I wanted....
Why can't people just be blunt? Yes, feelings get hurt- but skirting around the problem seems to make things worse.
The meeting started with- "Just keep in mind that all of you are expendable- per the [higher up] boss." Great motivator there. We each had to go around the table and say our peace and things that we wanted to get out into the open. I wasn't first- out of the 'little people', she was. She stated that she had no issues at all. We were hunky-dory-peachy-keen (does anybody say that? I seem to remember this from childhood...) I should have followed suit- but I didn't. Before that, my boss skirted around, "so, there wasn't anything from about a month ago that you were talking to your boss about??" Really? She played the 'we're all adults card' and then pulled such a juvenile move.
The issue was never described. She simply said that we could handle it and that she would bring it to my attention. Great.
When my turn came, we talked some about the calendar and reporting issue, some about the storage room (we'll get back to that one), and about the doors and treatment things. We volleyed our conversation back and forth. Our bosses chimed in occasionally. Finally, at the end of it (which I thought we did ok. I feel my 'partner' is passive-aggressive much) our bosses agreed that at some point we're going to kill each other because of the 'tone' we had toward each other. Neither of us were being heard or listening, which didn't make sense to me since we had come to an agreement about our issues.
The meeting ended with, ' we all have to play pretty together in the sandbox- either shape up or get yourself a different job. That isn't supposed to be a threat- it's supposed to be truth. It might be time to look for another job because all of you are very expendable.' I was so incredibly tempted to hand in my resignation right then- especially since on Monday, I was told the firing process 'could take over a year'. Please.... someone's lying badly.
Is it too much to ask to not have my job waved around my head like a dog biscuit? That I'm not threatened with my job every day because I have original ideas and don't want to conform?
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