YoungHeart1980!

I hope everyone is doing okay. Just wait, even when I am typing this blog, I still cannot believe what happened this day. You think back and you wonder what you did wrong, but it’s actually not you, but the person who created the problem. It’s a roller coaster of crazy things that happen after today.

I showed up to work today when I normally work remote on Monday’s. I told the cat lady Friday I would bring up the topic of being asked to do more when the supervisor didn’t mention anything to me. (Blog 11/01/24) The supervisor starts the meeting going down her list of to-do items. First, I noticed that there were 3 of us in the conference room present, 1 was remote, and the cat lady was three doors down from us in her office, but did join the meeting via zoom, why? She was 3 doors from us, that was odd.

My turn came, I then began addressing taking over all the payroll and asking more information about the different categories and that I would need to implement a new, efficient way to process payroll because it’s a mess at the moment. I was met with resistance and negativity from the cat lady, “That’s already been done and didn’t work.” Also, the supervisor wants us to do all the work, but she still wants to have control of how we do it. Well, we’re the experienced and the ones working on the project so we should be responsible to implement an efficient way that works for us. If a strategy didn’t work before for you then why would you think it wouldn’t work for me if the result will be the same, but the implementation would be different. So, they are just assuming it’s going to fail for me?

Secondly, I went down a list of my job duties that I am already responsible for and asked her why she would want me to take on more? There is no other time for me to take on more to my already busy schedule, for example a new standard operating procedure manual, the payroll already discussed, and as of Friday the cat lady just handed over her program work to me with no notice. As I started to ask what has changed…

BOOM! The cat lady burst into the conference room from her office three doors down to confront me. I asked what changed that she was handing me her work with no notice and that her approach was not appropriate. She began to yell! I told her to lower her voice that I was sitting right in front of her and told me I was accusing her and not to treat her like a child. I looked at her and said, really?! I haven’t said anything yet and if I did how come it wasn’t brought up before. I told her she had to calm down. She went mad! She kept yelling and wouldn’t stop. We received a bang at the door with an investigator to tell her that she left her zoom call open and he could hear the yelling as he was coming around her office. She yelled at him, and she quickly came back into the office. I did make a comment to both that I’ve had good ideas like how to keep track of researchers, I was told the following, “No, you didn’t, you only refined it.” LOL!! I responded with, “okay, you can have all the credit and my job as well!” Not even done with my sentence the cat lady turned over to my friend and said, “You too, you slammed the door the other day at me!” I was shocked as to how we got to a door conversation when we’re talking about work. My friend and co-worker responded saying that she was the only one who supported, defended, and covered up her attitude and this is how she gets treated? My friend has never done anything but support the cat lady.

The cat lady never addressed my questions and was so mad and yelled the whole time. I walked out of the conference room with nothing else to say. It was a sh*t show. It was not a good day, but I know I had done the right thing for me. I didn’t get my point across, but how can I when someone only yells to cover up the fact that what I wanted to say is the truth. All the Best!