YoungHeart1980!

Hello, I hope everyone is doing okay. Even with swollen tonsils the co-worker had no empathy toward me.

Today was my turn for the co-worker to come after. I was on a personal call and the supervisor sent a teams message to us if any of us needed assistance she was available to answer any questions regarding what she had trained us on thus far. I jumped on to the teams call once I was done with my personal call.

As I got on the supervisor and co-worker were engaged in a debate, both were agitated. The supervisor looked baffled and the co-worker was asking why and making face gestures of not caring and smiling sarcastically. The supervisor gave up and I wasn’t presenting until later in the afternoon and we all hung up on the call. Immediately the co-worker calls me and begins to vent about the supervisor criticizing her work. She also mentioned she was going to talk to the supervisor about her lack of training, rolling her eyes at the co-worker and agitated with her. I didn’t get on the call until the tail-end of it so I couldn’t agree or disagree. The co-worker asked me what I thought? I don’t like to take sides and I have stood on the sideline because I’m not going to interfere, not my place and I wasn’t on the whole call to form an opinion. I advised the co-worker against talking to the supervisor and confronting her regarding the training. She raised her voice and reminded me that I too didn’t agree with the supervisor’s style of training, but I took notes and made sense of it on my own. I took my own initiative to find the information and understand it. The supervisor will email us examples and send us training material and provide guidance so it is a form of training. We’re not being left out in the cold. The co-worker clapped at me saying she never mentioned confronting the supervisor about her way of training. I reminded her that it hadn’t even been 3-4 minutes of her saying it?! The co-worker said, “maybe by impulse I said it, but I wouldn’t do it.” “I can be impulsive.” Wow! Just WOW! I then realized her true personality.

It got quiet quick and I had plenty of work left to do I nearly hung up on her thinking I don’t have time for the immaturity. I’m sure after she calmed down, she realized her actions. I didn’t hear from her the rest of the day. Later in the afternoon when it was my time to present, she did a 180 – super nice and supportive. I’m not a fool and I’m not your ally. All the Best!