Do you have someone you work with that you like in general but drives you absolutely batty so much so that you wish you didn’t have to work with them? And, by not working with them doesn’t then mean you can go on to be great friends? I mean they drive you so crazy that you just want to stop the contact?
I work with someone like that. I was on the phone with my “special project” person (the person I’m helping learn how to provide content for electronic courses) telling her that I think we’re on track and how well things I think are going. You know, giving her some kudos and encouragement. My other line rings and it is the driving-me-batty person. I ignore the call because that is why God created voice mail. To take calls. As the other line stopped ringing my special project said driving-you-batty is trying to call me. I said yeah, she just tried here. We kept talking.
After I hung up driving-me-batty called me back and she sure loves to stir the pot. You know the pot–the pot of no-good-can-come-of-this-behavior. She wants to go around my special project and talk directly to the client and cut special project out of the loop. Which is just bad doo-dad. I have until tomorrow to tell driving-me-batty this is a bad idea. I have until tomorrow because driving-me-batty thinks she’s my supervisor and gives me deadlines/assignments like this all the time.
I hung up the phone and sighed. Luckily it was almost time to leave and I had to look for pictures of Monchichis on The Google. Yes, it is a strange world.