Even when you take the right steps and do the right things, the outcome is not always what you expect. A couple of weeks ago, I had a confrontation with one of my co-workers. This co-worker is very loud and very obnoxious. Sometimes you get to the point where you just get tired of someone’s mouth. This certain person has a bad habit of leaving her desk and being gone for a long period of time. She takes her radio with her, but many times she does not answer when her crews call in. When I leave my desk, it is to handle business matters…when she leaves her desk, it is mainly to go down to the warehouse and see her “boyfriend,” who incidentally is married with 4 children. When I found this out months ago, I lost ALL respect for her (what little I had). For someone to knowingly have a relationship with a married person, that person is just plain sick and deserves no respect.
Anyway, I had covered her radio one day while she was out wandering around. Crews were calling and she was not answering. I got tired of listening to her NOT answering, so I took matters in my own hands and started answering her radio. She got ticked and said something to me when she finally returned. I told her if she would stay at her desk, we would not have to be covering for her. She got nasty with me, so I got nasty back with her. I will not put up with a co-worker not pulling their own weight, just because she wants to spend unauthorized time with her boyfriend. Anyway, I will not let her or anyone else walk on me when I know I was in the right. I did not back down because I know I am right. At this time, her mom is having some health issues, which I have been praying about. I even told her in an email one day that I knew she was mad at me, but I was concerned about her mom and still praying for her.
I try to be a Christian witness at work and I know she is an unbeliever, but I refuse to let someone walk all over me. She is still ignoring me and refuses to speak to me, but at least I know I did the right thing and will continue to try to be as nice to her as possible, even though I do not respect her. She thrives on attention and likes to try to be funny. She gets the attention because she does talk so loud, but she feels that she is perfect. She talks down to people and insults them. Experience tells me you don’t talk down to people and you don’t insult them…it is not humorous. I have learned to back off and watch what I say to other people…she has not learned that lesson yet.
In other news….
I worked 12 hours yesterday and sure felt it when I got home last night. We are now short two dispatchers, so we are all going to be working more overtime. I don’t mind the overtime, as long as I know when it is coming. This morning I saw something I had not seen in over three weeks…..rain. Yes, it finally cooled off outside and rained. It felt so good. Unfortunately, when the rain comes, the temps drop down and the ground shifts…….those are the ingredients for water main breaks. So far, it has been calm today, so I hope it stays that way.
This evening, I get my beard trimmed up and tomorrow I have the day off so I can attend a funeral.
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