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All I wanted was validation (DH and Co-Worker Vent)
So I've been waiting for Nathan to get home so that I can ask him if whether my feelings towards something are totally valid or just ridiculous. He tells me that he won't choose a side, which he ALWAYS says. I told him that either way, it wouldn't really make a difference, I just wanted him to validate my feelings somehow. Here's the situation:
Friend and Coworker (We'll call her A) has a weekly (Friday's) staff meeting which requires her to leave the bookstore from 945 am to whenever the meeting ends (it varies each week, sometimes 11, sometimes 12:30). She has a two work study students who work for her and one of them comes in from 10-11 to cover the store for an hour between her classes during A's meetings. I can at least attempt to help people with their needs (which is basically paying for the stuff they want to buy), but if people want to order anything or know if things are in stock, I can't help. I'm the manager of the cafe' and am not actually trained to run the bookstore. A's boss just returned from a two week missions trip to Israel, so she told me that she anticipates the meeting being pretty long. That being said, one of her other student workers, who is also her friend, has a dr. appt tomorrow afternoon to discuss scheduling surgery for her thumb, and A volunteered to go with her to the doctor since she's a little nervous for surgery. So A decided to see if the student who normally covers her Friday mornings could cover in the afternoon so she could go with the other student. She told me this afternoon that we "could just close the bookstore" during her meeting since she doesn't have someone to cover it. So she's leaving twice during the day for at least 1-2 hours. The meeting is not required for her technically, but it has been implied that it is pretty important for her to be there. Fine. I accept that. Staff meetings are important. But to leave to accompany a friend to a doctor appointment?... This is the same co-worker who is late on a pretty regular basis and comes to work sick because she refuses to tell anyone the code for the safe so someone can cover her.
Will someone please tell me that they think this is weird? If it were her child, it would change the situation. I guess I just think that since she is always talking about how she never gets work done and there are plenty of people that could go with this other student to her appointment, that its a littl irresponsible. Am I over-analyzing this? I just want someone to tell me that they'd be a little annoyed by it too ;-)
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Re: All I wanted was validation (DH and Co-Worker Vent)
What's funny is that she says she doesn't need control and stuff like that, but she's ALWAYS trying to control situations. People these days!
She's afraid that someone will tell the code to the safe and take the money out if she tells, but coming to work with a fever, cold or the flu is totally not acceptable.
interesting!!!