A Conversation I Wasn't Meant to Hear...

I already responded about this bone head - but I was thinking more about it on my way home. When I was younger and would get upset because people would tease me about my weight my Dad (the Marine lol) always told me to tell them that I can loose weight but they will never loose stupidity. As a middle schooler that helped me - we are much more sophisticated now but I often still think that when people are rude.

*hugs* you kick butt, if the schmuck would get to know you she would see that you are awesome!! ANd famous lol I seem to remember a TV interview...

Liz

Oh...you are sooooo funny.  Yes, I am quite famous.  And she will be getting to know me a whole lot better in the next month or two.  Thanks again for the support.  I really, really love you guys!

Shameful that folks can't say things in person rather than create a situation of gossip. I always think if we were drug addicts folks would say to get help. If we had a disease, then folks would say to seek medical attention. They don't realize all we did was get help for ourselves which is an incredibly strong/positive thing to do!

And as one can see, nastiest comes back to bite people in the ass... thus you will be her supervior!

-Chanel

Thanks Chanel.  You are soooo right.  I did what I had to do to make a better life for me and my family.  Revenge can be sweet, although I'm not really that type of person.  But I'll find my way to get my revenge.  I think I know who I will direct all my audio transcription jobs to!

Eileen,  I have six words for you....Living well is the best revenge.  You are the better person.  You were professional in spite of these two that weren't.  It sounds like they feel better about themselves by putting others down.  I have one word for people like them although I am with Norm its called insecure. Oh and that processor hm lets see her lose the weight? She admits that she eats too much but what is she going to do about it? Lets see if she comes to Eileen her new supervisor. The old Linda would have reported them to HR and then told both of them that they should make sure that they hung the phone up before dogging someone but its so not worth it.  Keep up the great work sweetie!

Thanks Linda.  Yes, I probably will take the high road on this one, although earlier today I was extremely upset.  But the best thing I did today was bring all this to my favorite peeps.  Everyone has been so supportive.  I feel so much better about the whole thing now.  I even just shared all this with my husband and he agrees....why care about what co-workers think...it's your friends and family that really matter, and your friends and family have really come through for you today.

Oh, my sweet friend, what a horrible experience.  I am just soooooooo angry that anything hurtful was said to you.  I couldn't imagine hearing that.  You stay strong, girlfriend, and just remember who the better person is!!!  You're the best and don't ever let anyone forget it.  You got a ton of great advice and support, so I will leave it at that.  Just know that we all love you and we're always here for you.

Love you much my peep!!!

Hi Karen.  Thanks for the support.  Love ya right back!

I am OUTRAGED. 

Just outraged. 

I can't think of a better term than that. 

In fact, I'll say it again. 

OUTRAGED.

Ok...now I've gotten it out of MY system, too.

What would I do?  I don't know.  I definately would WANT to take it to HR but I know damn well I wouldn't because I wouldn't go through all that trouble.  I would definately shed a few tears over it to hubby - it would probably start as yelling the whole conversation to him and then I would be so angry I would cry...and then the tears would stop and I would be outraged (there it is again) for a little while longer....and I would post it on here....and then I would just huff it off and really think to myself about all the positives I have and what I KNOW to be the truth.

I do like the idea of fwd the voicemail to her, however.

All I can say otherwise is you know we love you - you are the bomb!!!  You know and we know how dedicated you are to this lifestyle, all the lessons you have had to learn along the way, all the difficult decisions we make every day.

Love you honey!

Pam

Yeh...OUTRAGED is a good way to describe how I felt later in the day.  But when I first heard it I wanted to cry.  But I'm a supervisor and I couldn't let my group see me that weak, so I just sucked it up.  Now that I've slept on it, and after having read all these great posts, I'm actually finding humor in it all.  It just goes to show you that no matter how educated someone is, they can still be a stupid a$$.  In a month or so when the announcement is made that they will be centralizing my department throughout our 11 offices and I will be supervising the whole bunch of them, that's when I will reap my rewards.  And the two of them will see just what kind of manager I really am.

Luv ya too, honey!