OMG drama
It’s rainy outside and what better way to spend such a day than tweet the Independents announcement on the election, make a batch of savoury muffins, then get into a nice hot bath. Ahhh. The website is up and running although it didn’t have quite the launch I would’ve liked it to due to… let’s call it ‘outside influences’ or ‘personal issues’. Two family members are not well and we had some bad news yesterday. My mind wasn’t really focussed on launching my business site.
So I’ll need to rethink my strategy for gaining attention and hopefully some work. It’s been difficult to concentrate today or focus on a task. Probably due to the above but also because now that I don’t have work structuring my time, I need to do it. Although I’m more than capable of doing that, it’s not something I’d considered at length previously. I thought I’d be fine with old PhD-writing processes of ‘yeah, I’ll get X done today but if I don’t it doesn’t matter’. I’d prefer to be a little more goal-orientated. I need to remind myself that I’ve come a long way since I first had the idea to do this and building knowledge – and site content – takes time. And focus.
I’ll go into work with Mr W&C tomorrow to visit the gym and work in a cafe so we can go to lunch later. I’m hoping this will inspire me to work as I won’t have much else to do. Hopefully I don’t run into Her Ladyship – as we now refer to his ‘manager’. I recently saw a friend of hers who is a) strange; b) keen on Mr W&C; and c) talkative to say the least. We’ll call her Jill. I was with Mr W&C at the time and whilst she said hello to him, she simply glared at me. I didn’t think about it until recently when I realised Her Ladyship must’ve said something charming about me to Jill. Although having possibly one of the most annoying people in the workplace who I rarely see not speaking to me hardly made me cry into my Weeties.
Also, these are grown women. Her Ladyship – basically – invited us to her her home then stabbed Mr W&C in the back. This is not ok with me and I want nothing to do with her. She has since revealed herself as someone I would label ‘toxic’. You’d think that’d be the end of story. I’ve discussed what happened with other people, but I don’t go around gossiping. I don’t exactly endorse her actions either but I have better things to do with my time than discuss someone I don’t want to know. Also, if Jill doesn’t want to speak to me, I’m down with that but…why? I have issue with something Her Ladyship did. And now her friend wants to ignore me? Um, ok. This is all getting terribly teen drama. Her Ladyship even snubbed Mr W&C at a function because she found out I was leaving the workplace and he didn’t tell her. Why did he need to and what’s it to her?
It makes me sad because there’s a good person in there that’s been corrupted by a need for power and recognition. She can be really lovely but would just as soon push you out the way if she saw the opportunity to climb up the corporate ladder. Not only do I have moral issues with her behaviour but it also clashes with my own beliefs in how I want to live my life. Constantly checking your work email on holidays? Becoming so consumed by work that you end up with a blinding migraine? Gossiping in a coffee shop and calling it networking? No thanks. I’d rather be honest, happy and healthy.
