I see it. Ummmmm consider this a bit of a rant warning, lol.
In my experience, the faction fighting at work was usually about the stronger personalities dominating the weaker employees, and maybe employers too. The dominant personalities required compliance on the part of their underlings, no matter, and usually got it. Typically, the fighting was about transferring aggression onto office workers, not about job performance or anything tangible, but about small minded things and abuses of power.
The amazing thing was that they would always lie to the fair minded employers about their behavior or get backing from the unhappy bitter employers. It was high drama on a highschool scale, really.
For the most part, I was always trying to avoid taking sides in the offices I worked in. I didn't want trouble from either side.
My last office job went up in a door slamming BOOM!
I was the door slammer.
The secretarial pool had just lost a little meanie and been replaced with a fair minded secretary, who also worked for the top dog attorney/employer man in the office. He was a fair minded bad boy who probably wouldn't have given a hank about any of this if he wasn't a bad boy, KWIM?
Part of my job was to help out the secretaries if they fell behind in their work.
The new (fair minded) secretary would run to her boss who would tell her to give me something to do so that when the mean secretary made her way up the hall to my desk (with some legal description laughably difficult to follow) That tract or parcel being of the northwest most southernly corner of the northwest most southest portion of said tract.... and on and on it went for pages, for me to TYPE on a typewriter at the time. The secretaries had word processors and could easily make corrections. It was crazy! It didn't take long before I was walking that back up the hallway and plopping it back onto the meanie's desk.
As it turns out, the head hancho, are you still with me here? The head hancho attorney had slept with 2 of the female attorneys and numerous employees. The female attorneys didn't like me bc they were afaid I'd sleep with the head hancho. The secretaries were just small minded mean spirited unhappy people. (Sidebar, when I was hired, the female attorney interviewing me told stories of sex a pades in the office with the bad boy attorney and said that she didn't want me f*cking him) Ummmmm... why was she telling me all this? Yes, she'd slept with him too.
It would have never entered my mind if they didn't keep bringing it up!
Anyway, little meanie secretary told her big meanie boss, who'd slept with bad boy too, about my little walk and plop ploy and she descended on me with a calm shaming dressing down about how I had had to do my job blah blah blab transparent tripe blah blah. Just too too much. They ended up with another job opening over silliness. The job I took was open bc of something that happened with the bad boy attorney, who'd guess?
I phoned the bad boy.... bc he was now openly supporting me,but making it look like he was standing against the meanies. I think he really enjoyed the catfighting and I think he really wanted to be bad with me but he was frightened of the fallout in the office. HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN AFRAID!
When I phoned him to inform him that I was leaving... take that meanies!.... He said that he had another job for me and to just get my things and go. I was so mad I did, and that's when I said something not too clever, slammed the library door with both hands and walked out, but not for the last time. ::groan::
I ended up coming back on the arm of the head hancho for that year's Christmas party. The meanies had insighted the very thing they were afraid would happen. Yup. Take that too....::nodding::
I was still so angry at the women in that office I wore a terribly innapropriate dress (borrowed and dispicably expensive) tres tres revealing (Poor my mother's husband, who also attended the party with my mother and kept wanting to cover me up) My mother just laughed because she knew exactly what I was doing and understood why I was doing but it was awkward bc the attorney I'd slammed the door on was one of her very good friends. Insanity! But terribly satisfying in a very twisted way I can't explain now. Poor mom just couldn't explain why her buddy had acted that way but she did tell me story about her sleeping with the bad boy and wanting marriage and all that. Summed it up for me but it would have been nice to have my mother tell her to back off her daughter, it wasn't appropriate or fair, etc. Never happened. Mom just kept her head down and dived for cover when paths crossed. There was food in every office and everyone was coming and going..... more high drama.
::wiggling eyebrows:: I can't believe I had the moxy to do that, lol but if anyone had it coming...... they did.
I never worked in another office again.
