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.

Hmmmmm….

A few things happened that I wanted to write about, but some of it was pretty sensitive stuff that made the news (like a guy croaking under my agency’s watch. Oopsie! Glad I wasn’t around for that). Then there was some juicy drama that involved a psycho-nutso forum I used to belong to, but I didn’t want to rehash events that would take way too long to explain to my readers, so that’s out too. Hmmm, what to write about, what to write, what to write… …well I heard Britney lost of custody of her kids recently. That’s something right?

Crap.

My old boss was a pretty standup guy, always helping out with the work, making sure nobody goofed up, but at the same time letting us take it easy when there was a lull in the workload. Because of him our section was run pretty efficiently, and for once was actually a fun place to be. I found myself having more time in the evenings to relax and hang out until my shift ended because of how smoothly things were being run.

Then he got transferred abruptly, the result of the powers-that-be shuffling around three managers from three different sections. Enter new boss.

Don’t get me wrong, my new boss seems like a good guy too, but he’s a bit laid back… ok, maybe a bit TOO laid back, but I guess that’s better than being an all out psycho. Nevertheless, I was cheesed, mainly because he has to learn everything all over again, just when my former boss was finally starting to settle in. The move didn’t make any sense to me. Why did three COs (commanding officers) get shuffled around just like that without any warning?

Then I got some intel from a mole in the department, who let on that one of the COs’ subordinates from another section had boosted a kayak (that came from God only knows where), and while the CO knew what the guy did, he did nothing about it. So the gist of if was that he had been disciplined and then transferred out because of his failure to handle the situation. My old boss now works that section.

“Let me get this straight,” I said. “I lost my boss because some idiot in another section boosted a KAYAK???”

“Yup.”

“Where did this friggin’ kayak come from anyway?”

“Good question.”

So now should have been an isolated incident instead ended up affecting three separate divisions. What the blank were the powers-that-be thinking? How ’bout you just reprimand the CO and his subordinate, suspend them or whatever, and be done with it? No, you had to throw 3 divisions into chaos with brand new bosses who don’t know which end is up, and this you call good management?

Unbelievable.