WARNING NON-PF RANT AHEAD: I am completely flabbergasted by what some people will ask of others. This last year has been a growing year in terms of offering to do something out of kindness and just keeping my mouth shut and going on my merry way. Over the past year, I have been bamboozled over and over again by a co-worker that is just plain lazy. Let's get things straight, this person is a co-worker, not a superior. Unfortunately, she thinks she "rules the roost" and would ask me to do things that I now know are not my job. All in the vein of being "too busy" to complete the task herself. Now, I'd be more than happy to help if she really needed it. But I don't think that checking personal e-mail, paying your household bills and surfing the internet qualifies as being "too busy" to perform your job.
When I was starting my job, I was told that we just work through lunch (which I'm fine with) but that often times one of us girls goes and get carryout for our office of 3. It turns out that I was always the one that went to go get lunch. I don't begrude my boss because she physically can't leave the office during office hours. Not only would I get lunch, but she never gave me enough money to completely cover her portion. If the meal was $7.69, she give me $8 even though with tax it was $8.35. In the beginning I didn't quibble because it was only $.35 but after awhile when she never gave me enough to cover her meal, I started to get pissed. I didn't want to make waves so I just stopped going to get lunch (which is better for the budget anyway).
Last but not least, the summer "carpool". Because my son is not old enough to stay home by himself, he has to go to camp so I can continue working. Because my schedule is flexible and part-time, I can adjust my schedule to his camp schedule in order to get him to and from camp. Co-worker decided that she would sign her son up for a couple of weeks at same camp my son attends. But, uh-oh, he had no way to get there and back because her work schedule wouldn't let her. She asked if I could take her son to and from camp. Because they only live a few minutes from camp and were signed up for the same early drop off program, I didn't mind. The first of two weeks, I texted her and asked that he be ready and waiting for the early morning run. She texts back that MWF his older sister would take him to camp before she had to be at work because it was too early for him and he wanted to sleep in a bit but wanted to make sure that we could still take him on T & R because his sister wanted to "sleep in". So excuse me, you have a method to take your son to camp but you're going to ask someone else.
So, in conclusion, all of this comes to an end tomorrow afternoon when I drop off her son for the last time because it his last day of camp. And it will really come to an end in a couple of weeks, as co-worker is moving out of state. My parting words to co-worker is GOOD RIDDANCE and GO F**K YOURSELF!
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