Good morning, Red S - Enjoy your easy day at the office today. And you are right about those parents. At the risk of sounding like my dad, people these days do not seem to take much responsibility and/or accountability for one's own choices or decisions these days. Seems everyone wants to place blame on someone or something else for why something happened instead of looking into the mirror and saying, "what did I contribute to this or what decisions could I have made differently".
Katmouse, your week sounds like it has been a lot of fun and a good balance of yard work, Camp Mimi, and helping out at libraries.
This morning and all week is absolutely beautiful. I had my outdoor beach volleyball league last night and we were soaking up the sun as we played. It felt so good to finally be getting warmth and not rain all the time.
It looks like my office is going to be in for a bit of a fight that none of us want. Long story short, a girl I work with has created, fabricated, lied, manipulated her way into having an outcome of harassment filed against her in her favour and she has lied, manipulated, played the victim in another fight against our manager. She has even gone to the doctor to get a note that she cannot work in our office and has been relocated somewhere else because she claims that our manager is dangerous and she fears for her safety. 5 of us were asked to provide our witness account of what occurred one day between her and another coworker of mine, all of us recounting who the harasser was, what occurred, etc. The 5 of us were made out to be liars and protecting this coworker and basically everything that had occurred in our office was everyone's doing but her own. Anyways, so for the past 10 months, this girl has been working from home and another office while the rest of us have been enjoying a peaceful office where everyone has their bums in chairs, doing their job and the duties that come with their roles. Out of sight out of mind. Oh ya, and we were all ATIP (Access To Information Process). This meant I had to provide any emails or correspondence of any sort where her name was mentioned to this tribunal who were reviewing everything. I had two emails to my manager expressing my frustration of not being to work with this girl, doesn't perform the duties that come in her role, lack of communication, my concern for the next manager coming in, and asking for assistance in what am I supposed to do when the person who is on my team is not cooperating. There was a lot more in that email. I have been told confidentially that our regional director will be coming out in August to share with us that this girl will filing something against all of us in our office for violence, harassment, and bullying.
What she is doing is harassment and bullying. We are all sitting here doing our jobs and she is continuing to fight something that none of us asked for. I HATE that I'm going to have to defend myself against lies and manipulations especially when it has been proven that people in higher positions are believing her and have the influence to make some very poor decisions in this. Ugh......honesty, integrity, accountability and responsibility apparently do not mean anything when we are up against this girl. Anyways, sorry for that long story, I'm just sick about this.
Tonight, Mike and I are going to for a run, tomorrow night beach volleyball drop in then Saturday we are doing the Rugged Maniac. Cannot wait for it. It's going to be a sunny day, lots of people, bands, a festival, beer gardens, bbq. Looking forward to this.
Have a good day and rest of the week everyone.
