Her favorite phrase to introduce herself to the invisible and powerful inter-cubicle audience is "everybody knows". That is how she gets attention at lunch time. After that she develops the sketch, according to the instructions, of course of the time setters, she enjoys so much kissing a.. up and spitting down - at least in her mind - that she has no idea of OOP, because after all, is it necessary? I mean she knows them.
So when she offers me a big monitor for my computer I am confused. Is she good, bad, in the middle or what? I keep my pose, accept the offer and let the events go on. Should confess that in the beginning she looked normal.
But when developing the show she is transformed into another person. Never before I had seen such a marvelous double acting in a human being. She is hate at its best. No other expression could describe better the set of phrases that she uses. Above all when she grabs a phone and pretends to talk. She can spend ten minutes ruining your lunch with an inner satisfaction in her voice. Those who approve and promote her behavior should be happy. Those who do not like what she says remain in silence. A tense atmosphere is the result. Acceptance and tension. Is that what she wanted?
I enjoys being acknowledged and let others stories be known, she dislikes indifference, so she makes it clear to the ones who do not smile. But among us there are tough guys who do not smile. They know that everything we do in live brings about "consequences". And even though she has the upper hand, apparently, isn't it true that life is like a spinning wheel. So they concentrate in their jobs and do not laugh and that makes her crazy because she wants everybody to think exactly as she does.
Of course I. is a friend of A. and they share viewpoints. One particular day can reflect the depth of the consequences. It was a day in which we all perceived that something very, but very strange and significant was going on with I. somewhere. Here is the moment: “We are working, and I. can not do some sort of task because the data does not arrive timely - as it should - to her. Suddenly A. grabs a phone and calls and says : "You know something, it is me, it is me the problematic one, what is going on ..." . She usually never did this, above all in public. So everybody is left thinking what was the upsetting thing that had happened, somewhere, that had made some people block I. as if they did not like her. What had I. and her associates done to the other side? And above all, why was A. so passionate in defending her when she did not the same thing for other subordinates who were undergoing the same situation?
There are moments in life that are unforgettable. When she said that she would be careful not to let her children to play with any person of a specific color - reference, my color as she understood it - it created a significant silence in the intercubicle audience. It seems to be that even the most hardcore sympathizers understood that she had crossed some boundaries.
But she was undeterred, once she got started nothing could stop her. So there she was another day, saying that her husband was there washing her car for free, screaming it for the audience, this time pretending to talk on a phone - an open invitation to "resolve matters". Out of curiosity I went out at lunch time to see where the "washer" was. Later on I learned that this was one of the "techniques" used by some women in that place. This happened, of course, after we move to the "other" location and after the famous speech from P. where his favorites were going to have "full authority".
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