There's one in every office...

Here it is - another blog about my office. I have posted so many, and yet it is not enough. While my blogs regarding the office are generally negative (and this is no exception) I thought I would start this blog off on a more positive note.

The owner went on vacation today. She will be in Boston until the 19th of November. Hallelujah!! She called us all downstairs and announced it to us. She started off with a joke - she said she was retiring. The response was dead silence. We all hoped she was serious, but alas, she was not. Then she proceeded to announce that P. was to be in charge during her absence. Now we all love P., at least, those of use who actually do our jobs, love P. Nonetheless, it grated on our nerves, as it was another demonstration of the owner's obsessive need for control. Still, we were all pretty stoked that she will be gone for nearly two weeks.

With that being said, let's move on to the main point of this blog. Recently the 'office manager' and scheduler - we'll call her Little Dumpling - has moved her desk upstairs (at the request of the owner, of course). Now, I was aware that Dumpling had some issues prior to her moving upstairs, so her behavior isn't entirely surprising. I am, however, surprised at the frequency of said behavior. Surprised, and utterly annoyed.

Firstly, she is a first class suck up. Not to K. and to me, because we can't get her anywhere or do anything for her. But to the folks in HR, and the supervisor (aka Barbie), she offers suck ups galore. Additionally, Dumpling is the office tattle-tale. Several times a day -and I do mean several - she is in Barbie's office - or HR's office - tattling on someone. For the simplest things. Today she told on the other scheduler, S., for forwarding her calls to Dumpling's desk while S. was at lunch. Then she proceeded to explain how she had told S. to do that yesterday. S. apparently thought she meant to do that on a permanent basis. It was a simple misunderstanding, for Christ's sake!

Oh, but there is more! Dumpling is also a busybody, to the extreme. She will eavesdrop on co-workers telephone conversations, look over their shoulders at their PC monitors, and snoop around their desks. If she suspects there is anything interesting going on with a co-worker, she will immediately get up from her desk and go into that persons work area and begin an interrogatory. She constantly sends 'secret' e-mails, and begins conversations with Barbie about them, making sure that the tone of the conversation is covert. All day long she is either tattling, sucking-up, or whispering conspiratorially to someone about something. Today she has added something new. She literally screamed profanities at an employee over the phone!!

I am in the process of moving forward, career-wise. I just don't know how much more of this I can take! This place is driving me to drink!