Last Thursday a co-worker asked me to do something for him by next Monday. He was going to be out of town the following Wednesday through Friday, so to have it ready when he got back. I said sure. Well the rest that week and Monday and Tuesday he kept pestering me about it! He always does this. He’ll ask me to have something done in a week or whatever and then he asks about it at least three times a day until I have it done. He’ll come to my desk and if I’m not working on it he’ll ask to see where I have it written down. So annoying and condescending.
This time I was saving his little assignment for when he wouldn’t be here on purpose, he asked me to do it but if he were here he would have taken over anyway. When he lets me do something he always seems pleased. But he seldom actually lets me do it. Then after he's taken over and done it himself he'll tell me I did a good job. I’m not an idiot. Don't compliment me on something you did.
You may be thinking that I must have earned this distrust or something, and that I am unable to function effectively at work. But I don't believe that's true.
Another thing - our desks are in view of each others when his office door is open and he’s always yelling at me. I know he doesn’t mean anything by it, and he probably even thinks he’s being cute (or whatever it is that nearly 40 year old men are going for when they are being rude), but it makes me … unhappy.
... I'm pretty certain no one at work knows about this blog. But just in case I will say that I do like my job and my co-workers.
1 comment:
I can't imagine anyone yelling at you- the old fart (your co-worker, that is)!
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