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OK - now I really don't know what to do (RE: "Why is everyone afraid of her?")

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Lexophile:
Maggie has now dropped the hint that she wishes I would go to management with what happened yesterday (see my original post entitled "Why is everyone so afraid of her?"). This is tricky, as my own role in this company is sort of in linbo right now, and we all recently heard that the management wanted to fire all of us and start with a new admin team because of all the bickering that was going on about Connie. I have been very careful not to get involved with management about this whole thing, as I think it compromises my professionalism to participate in all of the cat-fighting. I do, however, feel obligated to help Maggie, as she has stepped in for me several times and stuck her neck out to help me. Further, it's starting to affect everyone's work and Tim needs to know what's going on. How do I word the email without it sounding like I'm getting involved in a problem that doesn't really have anything to do with me?

ShadesOfGrey:
can you clarify exactly what Maggie wants you to do? There's so much in the OP I dont know what to address.  It does sound like you are getting involved in something that shouldnt involve you, though it does affect you.  I cant imagine Maggie asking you to do something that would tarnish your reputation, especially since you say she has fought for your reputation too.  Thanks.

behindbj:
So - they would rather fire the lot of you than deal with the one person causing all of the trouble?

Why do you want to work there?

behindbj

Lexophile:
Long story short, I wish I didn't have to work here. But I've worked so hard for so long to get them to put me in this highly specialized role (that doesn't exist in many companies), so I've decided to stick around for awhile now that they are paying some attention to me. I can't really leave now after I've put so much effort into getting where I am.

I refer to the story about Sandy, the PM who called and tried to bully me into cleaning up Connie's mess rather than taking the matter into her own hands and talking to Maggie about it because she's afraid to lose Connie's cooperation. I have to say something. I spent time arguing with Sandy yesterday that I should have been spending on work that was scheduled ahead of time. I just have to be careful how I word it so it doesn't look like I'm taking sides. Maggie asked me to relay the information because she feels as if she's just being ignored now.

Xanthia, Maker of fine Tin-foil hats since 2007:

--- Quote from: behindbj on January 11, 2007, 12:25:04 PM ---So - they would rather fire the lot of you than deal with the one person causing all of the trouble?

Why do you want to work there?

behindbj

--- End quote ---

This has happened to me.  I worked with someone and shared a space with her who threatened to hit me if I called her ma'am (it was an accident, I really tried not to), tried to get me fired for how my lunch smelled, because I coughed when she was near me and it might get her sick, because I told her that her Saint candle was smoking a lot and was bothering my eyes, because I listened to talk radio on headphones so she felt she could not listen to her music without headphones (she played the same 3 Cd's over and over and over).  We shared a space and I had seniority (she had left the company 2 times before, and made everyone miserable while she was there, but the boss took her back because he felt sorry for her because everyone else kept firing her).

When I finally had enough, she was making me so miserable that I cried and was getting nosebleeds at work she was upsetting me so much with her behavior that I went to the boss to ask what I could do to help the situation.  My boss told me she was jealous of me, and that I should suck it up, but if I caused any more trouble by complaining, I would be fired.

They took away an examiners office and put the examiner in with me and her in her own office (which is what she wanted all along).  The examiner found another job, I switched to another position and then to another company and later found out that I was about to be fired if I had not changed positions.  AND WHY WAS THAT, it was because I was so much better at my job than her and so much easier to get along with that my old boss knew I could easily get another job, but the PITA had been fired from every other company in the industry that was in a 30 mile radius and had no place else to go.

Yeah for "right to work states", you can be fired at any time for any reason, even it it is because you are good at your job and the other person is a lousy PITA.

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