"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." -- unknown

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results - Albert Einstein

a note and an update
May 03, 2003 - 3:24 pm

uhm, the co-worker who things i'm doing her job.. is mad at me again. complicated story, but here's the basics.

about two days ago she asked to draft and send someone a letter. i had to get the letter formally approved, so i drafted it and sent it off to someone else to be approved. in hindsight, my in this case was not copying her on this approval email.

my letter gets emailed around to a few folks before ending up back to me, approved as it was written. in the email chain i see a reference that i did something good. however, i did not do this thing, the co-worker did. so i verbally go and tell her i got the letter back and that i saw i was attributed with doing something i hadn't done. i then send her the chain, i'm not trying to hide any of this, so she can see that at no point in my original email did i claim anything of the sort.

this is really hard to follow huh? oh well, you asked =)

so, the co-worker goes to my boss and makes it sound like i'm trying to take credit. a conversation with my boss and supervisor ensues. my boss now understands that i wasn't claiming anything. i told the co-worker as soon as i got the email what it contained, when i could have just not bothered to pass it on.

i'm left..not sure if she really doesn't like me or if she actaully feels threatened by me. in any event, there have now been two conversations, the first one i talked about a while ago and this one on friday. both times, what she's bitched about has been nothing issues and my boss sees that. so, i'm not really concerned about it since she's just making herself look like a rather immature 40-something.

i also let my boss know that i'm applying to grad schools and that i expect to know what i'm doing by early june. so, i feel go about that. her first response was along the lines of "i think it's awsome you've wanted to do this and you are!" quickly followed by "well, it kinda sucks for us, but congratulations".

i'm wading through financial aid crapola today. what fun.