i got this new job. training starts june 19 after we get back from vacation next week. the following week i have to go to hartford, ct for training. training is on a schedule. i turned in my notice monday morning - a 2 week notice, however, the last week of that 2 week notice i'll be spending in florida with my family. so it comes down to a 1 week notice. not the best of circumstances to be leaving my present job, right? however, not much i can do about it due to the training schedule. i guess i could turn down the new job and that would rectify the 1 week notice problem here.

ok, we have a girl here that is really very sweet, but also has lots of drama in her life. her dad is an alcoholic, her ex-boyfriend of 5 years is a drug addict. she has numerous friends with numerous problems. she is in therapy to try to learn how to avoid these types of people, and yet she always opens the door to them and always has huge amounts of drama going on in her life, either because of her bad choices or her inability to turn these people away and weed them out of her life.

she averages about 4 days work per week. this is ok with our supervisor because this girl's best friend was married to the supervisor's son some years ago. (i know, i know - it's kind of twisted) anyhoo, everyone who works here feels that this girl is the daughter that the supervisor never had, and she always covers for her, makes excuses for her - you get the picture? when she has to cover my desk, due to illness or vacation - whatever - the supervisor gives her extra vacation days. let me just say that this girl hates to work. she tells us all the time that she hates it and she'd rather be on her couch playing with her dogs. whatever. she'll whine that she'd really like to be home today, then actually call in sick the next day. i'm dead serious. i've never seen anything like it in my life.

soooo, yesterday morning this girl is crying and saying someone had hurt her feelings. this is normal.......usually it's her dad or her ex or the guy she's been seeing for a month or two. so i didn't think much of it and i don't pry. later yesterday the other girl i work with said that she would be covering my lunch break because the supervisor's favorite girl wasn't doing too good. i asked her if she knew which bastard had upset her this time and she pointed to me!!! what did i do? i asked. apparently, i didn't tell her first that i was looking for another job and that i was leaving.

excuse me???

i wouldn't want to know this information about someone i work with. i think it puts a person in a bad situation to know a thing like this. i've been in this situation, and i don't like it. besides, whose business is it if i'm looking for another job?? she's been here for nine years - i think i know where her loyalty lies, and while she may or may not have said something, and while the supervisor may or may not have gotten mad if she found out i was looking for another job, it's really nobody's business but mine.

so i told her i didn't mean to hurt her feelings, and that when i gave the supervisor my notice she told me not to tell anyone, that she would take care of that. she kept repeating that i had really hurt her feelings, and that she thought we were friends but now she realizes we were just co-workers. she said that it felt like i had given her the finger.

what????????? the finger????? i don't do that!!!!!!!!!!!! how tacky!!

then she says to me "do you realize that when the temp or the new person doesn't show up who's gonna have to cover your desk?"

ahaaaa. so there it is. puuuulllleeezzzzzzz. let's call it what it is. don't try to guilt me into this guise of friendship when you're just afraid you're actually going to have to be here and actually going to have to do some work.

i'm not one to burn bridges, so i let it go. i figure i'm outtahere in 3 more days, so what the hell do i care? hopefully i'm moving onto something better, and she hopefully will get her life together one day. it really burned for a minute tho. i have never pretended to be her friend. i was able to weed the drama out of my life after my divorce. i certainly don't want to invite that back again. and i know i'm leaving with really only a week's notice. things don't always work out the way we hope they will. i don't feel so great about it either, but it seems she's the only one who's pissed about it. i think she'd find something to be pissed about everyday anyway. that seems to be her MO.

so why do i feel so bad still??????