Co-worker vent

[5kcandlesinthewind]

I am about to murder my coworker. She came back to work today after being out sick for the last two days, and she brought a hideous cough with her. She's been coughing since I got here, so we are going on to hour 5 of me listening to this shit. I offered her cough drops, to get her water, and told her to go the eff home. No dice. Last year, she developed a cough in the fall and it lasted right through til spring. If I have to listen to this for 6 straight months again, I'm going to have to kill her.

Also, she just spent 20 minutes talking to someone about the inconsistencies of Dunkin Dounts with regard to coffee taste, pricing, and cups. And I can't even shut my door, because our Big Boss is a freaking Door Nazi, who gets all pissed off your door is shut for anything longer than a phone call or a meeting when you're there. Also, yesterday Big Boss poked her head in my office and told me I should put in a request to have my carpet cleaned. I was like, "Umm, that stain was there when I moved in 2 years ago. I don't think it'll help." ^o)

Lord, beer me strength.

[5kcandlesinthewind]

I could level with her a)if she didn't sit two doors down from me and have to listen to it all day as well, and b)was remotely reasonable. Unfortunately, she's not. Like, at all. Fortunately, my direct boss also listens to this all day, since she sits just across from me, so we send snarky emails back and forth about it all. (My boss is also pissed because she got a lecture about not using her desk lamp instead of the hideous fluorescent overhead, because it "looks like she's not in." This is the sort of shit they worry about. It still doesn't beat the time they tried to lecture me about keeping a shoe bin under my desk, but yeah.)

The cough is much better today, so we'll see. In the meantime, I suddenly have an awful lot of phone calls to make.