Fighting The Devil Woman
Lincoln Adams | November 12, 2007 @ 7:45 pmThis post is part of the series titled, "Waging War At Work." The table of contents for this series is listed below in chronological order:
- Fighting The Devil Woman
- Forced to Fight
- A Battle Won
- Countdown to Showdown
- The Last Mile
- Line in The Sand - Taking a Stand
- You are the MAN!
Oh man, I’m in for it now. Without getting into too much detail here, suffice it to say that things have suddenly come to a head at my job. 
One of the supervisors here is, to put it charitably, an evil spawn of Satan from hell. A few months ago she put my family through some tremendous grief because of her outrageous behavior, until the department finally found enough of their stones to transfer her out. Let’s not fire her though, the same woman who would follow men into the bathrooms just so she could continue wailing on them, the same woman who would throw herself on the ground and scream at the top of her lungs because somebody didn’t sign in on time, the same woman with a file so thick it’s got it’s own set of wheels. Nah, let’s transfer her out and then put her on a promotion list. That’ll fix her.

And now she’s back, all because of some spat my dumbass boss had with one of my coworkers, who then whined to the chief of the department, who then in a moment of what he probably thought was sheer brilliance, reshuffled our section so that Devil Woman ends up sitting at the desk RIGHT next to mine. But technically she’s not our boss, it’s just that the desk is the only place she can sit to oversee the “special project” the department head now assigned her, while our esteemed supervisor and bold leader continues to hide out in some corner of the building the way he always does. But she’s not going to bother us, right? After all, she’s still not our boss or anything, so she couldn’t possibly have the gall to start micro-managing us, turn off our radios, or scream in our ears whenever we make the mistake of looking her way, right?
Oh wait, yes she could.
This latest move was so scandalous that I was getting calls from coworkers warning me about what happened before I came in. So I called my union president and demanded that this be dealt with immediately. They’re trying to put off the inevitable by just moving her around as much as they can, but everywhere she goes she leaves a path of destruction, and eventually, there just isn’t going to be any place left to put her.
I drew my line in the sand though, and made it known that this crap was going to end one way or another, right here, right now. I took a personal day today, but as it stands, I won’t be returning back to work until she’s gone, or until they transfer me into a division where I’ll finally be able to get to work with real human beings who aren’t mentally psycho out of their arse fricking minds.
If nothing is done by this week’s end, I stand to lose about a week’s pay, but fortunately I’ll be off next week, so the sting won’t be too bad. But… if nothing is done by Thanksgiving, ho’ boy. I’ll also be speaking with the director of our agency (the head honcho), and from what I hear he seems to be a standup guy, but we’ll see.
What a mess. But really, enough is enough, and I just about @#% had enough of the corruption and depravity of this department.
Related Posts:
- Countdown to Showdown (8)
- You are the MAN! (11)
- Cutting Through The Poo (2)
- And the answer is….. (4)
- Line in The Sand - Taking a Stand (2)
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5 Responses to “Fighting The Devil Woman”
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Ouch. Sounds awful. I’ll pray for a reasonable solution to be found.
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Sounds crazy! You should look into the law on this one I reckon - I’m sure theres some employment law somewhere that says that everyone has the right to work in a friendly environment without fear of harrasment - or something like that. Or maybe thats just in the UK, I don’t know.
Either way, if she’s making your working life hell then maybe you’ve got some sort of legal recourse. Maybe its worth hinting at that when you speak to your big boss???
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Thanks Casey.
Mou, we do have the same type of laws, but the problem is I have to wait till something is done to me personally before my union will take any action. And when will that be, when she shoots me????
I just got off the phone after a vicious spat with my union rep too. For people who are supposed to be advocates, they sure have a strange way of showing it.
If I speak to the director and nothing happens there, I may have to do the unthinkable: get in touch with the ACLU. 
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ACLU? Have you no morals?! Have we learned nothing from Anakin Skywalker? The Dark side cannot help you! IT WILL DESTROY YOU!
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Casey, sometimes the enemy of my enemy is my friend.
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