Work Colleague Rant

I have been having problems with one of my work colleagues over the last few days. The whole thing started last Friday and has been going on ever since with no end in sight.

My supervisor took aside one of my team mates and explained that it had been brought to his attention by one of the managers, that the way she had been handling certain enquiries was incorrect. He then explained how management wanted her to be handling the enquiry. She ended up in tears in the toilets and was like that, of and on, for the rest of the day.

Now, you would have thought that after a long weekend (and in her case, an extra long weekend because she also had Tuesday off), that she would have taken on board the information given and be getting on with the job at hand. Yeah right!!

Instead of being mature and learning from it, she is being pedantic and petty - making snide comments and ranting about the supervisor (who has only passed on what he has been told by management). Plus she is also completely ignoring him, not saying a word to him. How juvenile is that?!

For example... we were told yesterday that today was going to be a free dress day. In keeping with the theme - the World Cup - we were to come dressed in the colours of our assigned countries. When she arrived at work, she was wearing her uniform. When someone asked if she forgot, she made a comment along the lines of it being a 'spastic' idea.

Her negativity at the moment has started to affect me, so much so that I hardly talk to her for fear of setting her off on a rant.

Luckily, I'm able to speak freely to my supervisor about it and how it is affecting me - otherwise I might be likely to tell her to pull her head in, and thus incur her wrath too - so he is looking at possibly moving her to another desk.

The funny thing is, she has only been sitting there for a few weeks because she asked to be moved out of her last team because she didn't get on with one of them!