02-10-2015, 06:55 AM
Does anyone else work somewhere where the maturity level and catty attitudes are worse than they ever were in grade school?
My workplace is full of cliques, drama starters, and rumor spreaders. Even our clients are guilty of it. The most recent occurrence was a rumor flying around that another agency was no longer performing a service that we also perform, so we were going to be getting their case load.
A coworker approaches me yesterday and says that this news isn't true and that somebody told her that somebody told her that somebody talked to (insert my first name here) at (insert some other office that I don't work at here), and got this information. So according to my coworkers and supervisor, it's apparently me that told a client that this other agency will no longer be accepting the work... which I never told anyone this. I don't know anything about this other place. I don't claim to, and I have certainly never discussed it with a client. IF it was even me that talked to the client in question (which we don't even know for sure because they're claiming they talked to someone in a different office and my first name is not uncommon) this certainly turned into a bad game of "Whisper Down the Lane" because what came out at the end of the rumor mill was certainly not what came out of my mouth.
Don't you just love being reprimanded at work for things you didn't do?
And this is only the most recent drama. Things like this happen at least twice per week, and I'm usually the scapegoat... I tend to keep to myself. I show up, do my job and leave. I don't sit with my department at lunch. I don't feed the drama llama.. and somehow this makes me an easy target. Everybody goes to lunch, and when they come back, they've found 12 things that I didn't have anything to do with to blame on my existence. I'm like the geek in the glasses that everybody likes to bully. I hoped this shit would end when I got out of school.. How wrong I was!
My workplace is full of cliques, drama starters, and rumor spreaders. Even our clients are guilty of it. The most recent occurrence was a rumor flying around that another agency was no longer performing a service that we also perform, so we were going to be getting their case load.
A coworker approaches me yesterday and says that this news isn't true and that somebody told her that somebody told her that somebody talked to (insert my first name here) at (insert some other office that I don't work at here), and got this information. So according to my coworkers and supervisor, it's apparently me that told a client that this other agency will no longer be accepting the work... which I never told anyone this. I don't know anything about this other place. I don't claim to, and I have certainly never discussed it with a client. IF it was even me that talked to the client in question (which we don't even know for sure because they're claiming they talked to someone in a different office and my first name is not uncommon) this certainly turned into a bad game of "Whisper Down the Lane" because what came out at the end of the rumor mill was certainly not what came out of my mouth.
Don't you just love being reprimanded at work for things you didn't do?
And this is only the most recent drama. Things like this happen at least twice per week, and I'm usually the scapegoat... I tend to keep to myself. I show up, do my job and leave. I don't sit with my department at lunch. I don't feed the drama llama.. and somehow this makes me an easy target. Everybody goes to lunch, and when they come back, they've found 12 things that I didn't have anything to do with to blame on my existence. I'm like the geek in the glasses that everybody likes to bully. I hoped this shit would end when I got out of school.. How wrong I was!