This is so weird because I was coming onto Purse Forum to post this very thread!
Sorry if this is long, but I desperately need to vent and I truly appreciate anyone who reads it.
I just graduated college but have been having a heck of a time securing my full time job within my current company. It's a good company and I don't want to leave. It's basically been a big waiting game, but I never give up and keep applying.
My colleague I've been working with for 9 years has always been supportive, but just a few minutes ago she was being so snotty to me. I started off at this company extremely shy and she is the polar opposite - very brazen and bold. She helped me come out of my shell a lot as she is older than my mom and I started here as a teenager. She's been kind of a mom figure to me. She's been VERY supportive in many cases, but every now and then she gets really mean. She has this obession with being the center of attention and she will literally scream and hoot and holler so that everyone looks at her, cut people off in midsentence, and flat out interrupt people all the time so that she can tell her little boring stories. She's a admin and has been here for 18 years.
Today we went to lunch together with three other ladies to talk mostly social but part business. Everyone knowing I just graduated asked me questions and asked me about my job hunt and I told them just the basics (didn't try to flaunt or give too much info). They kept asking questions and this lady was like, "was that for an ADMIN job? or an analyst role?" I replied, "no a manager" (it's an sales type account manager job). She got a stone look on her face and got really quiet after that. I didn't think much of it until now, because she seemed normal to me.
Then earlier she saw I had a box to ship some things in and I had already sealed it up and about to apply the label when she comes by and thinks I should use a DIFFERENT box (I reply that the lady said this box was just fine). She doesn't care though and like nearly breaks her wrist trying to pry it open to transfer the contents over. I try to help but she's all insisting to do it herself.
Then she goes off for a while, then comes back. She asks me if I'll be in tomorrow and then says "is [boss lady] okay with you working full time until you find your job, and are you gonna clean your desk out anytime soon because I don't want to have to do it." I am like HUH? A few hours ago you were being really nice to me? Then she asks me about my job hunt again and I say the same thing I said at lunch, that the guy emailed me and I am really optimistic and I hope I get it, etc, etc being upbeat. The whole time I talk she makes these stupid faces. She was being so obvious and blatent about it too like being stoned faced, not smiling back when I smiled and raising her eyebrows as she filed her nails with an emery board.
I know eventually I won't have to work with her everyday, but I also know that there will be more people like her. It seems like there are so many people who get jealous easily and are bad friends.
How in the WORLD can you find these "good friends"? I could really, really use a few because I am sick and tired of people being Jeckel and Hyde with me.
so I dont know..
