Office Drama

I had a co-worker named Tattie who appropriated Pina's cell phone. Tattie then licked the cell phone from top to bottom, lifted her dress and rubbed the cell phone on her buttocks. A third party named Oompah witnessed everything but said nothing for five days.

Oompah's conscience got the best of her and she told Pina what Tattie had done. They both went to management and complained about Tattie, who was placed on paid administrative leave pending investigation. Tattie was given a hearing and assessed 30 days unpaid suspension.

Tattie is returning to work this week and both Oompah and Pina fear retaliation physically and to their personal property. As a result, Oompah is being relocated into my physical workspace, which normally accommodates three persons, and both doors to my unit are being changed to key access entrances.

I am very unhappy about the latter because this means I can no longer have the door unlocked and open. My area has' no windows so feeling claustrophobic is not a stretch. I'm equally unhappy about having to deal with  another dramatic personality.

Pina spent two days sobbing - I'm not joking, she sobbed as if someone had died - and talking about the ordeal ad naseuam. I was ready to leave and never return after all, there comes a time when you "get on with life and forge ahead". Now with Tattie's return imminent, Pina has called out sick twice "anticipating her arrival and having her stomach her knots."

I tell you I wish I worked with nothing but computers in a room by myself.