Better treatment at a public library than a "Christian" one

[Ivy]

Makes you wonder how people like this get hired. The hiring people probably didn't care, they just went through the motions. Probably soon thereafter they regretted hiring this person who had no comparison to you. Did you ever ask anyone you trusted back in the organization how things were going with her?

I did quite a few years ago. The person I talked to just confirmed what I had seen. My coworker friend said, and I quote, "I have never worked with a bigger b**t h**e than [the person I mentioned]. My former co-worker who said this went on to get a fabulous job with a company I won't identify here, and I say good for her. She didn't stick around for more of that state agency nonsense.

[SolaDude]

I did quite a few years ago. The person I talked to just confirmed what I had seen. My coworker friend said, and I quote, "I have never worked with a bigger b**t h**e than [the person I mentioned]. My former co-worker who said this went on to get a fabulous job with a company I won't identify here, and I say good for her. She didn't stick around for more of that state agency nonsense.

This brings up a memory. In the federal gov't it takes a year or two to get rid of someone, even if they are in their probation period. One of the employees I supervised was new. So, in the lunchroom, another employee simply sat down with her to be friendly, asked about where she was from, kids, etc. After lunch, the friendly employee came to my office in tears, showing me an email just sent to her by the new lady, calling her a b***h for asking her anything about her life, where she's from, her family, and going on and on in a tirade. Oh, boy, I to this day will never understand why anyone would tear in to someone else trying to befriend them. Well, of course, she was stupid enough to write that email to begin with which of course is a permanent record. It became the first in 106 exhibits I produced over nearly twelve months' time to get this lady fired. She was absolute hell to everyone, lied, ruined equipment, etc., but HR wouldn't get rid of her. I was determined and I simply kept flooding HR with paperwork, exhibits, etc. and we finally got her out. I was the one who presented her with her pink slip in a conference with others attending. At one point in the process, her husband went to HR threatening them (and me). I asked for a police escort to accompany me as I led her out of the workplace as I did not want to get mugged by him. After all was said and done, she later asked some of our staff to write recommendations on her behalf for her new employer. I'm not sure if I ever came across anyone that stupid or crazy frightening in my career. Kinda reminds me of that sweet lady, Glenn Close, in Fatal Attraction. She had a great resume and interview....it goes to show that you can never be sure of anyone when you hire them.

[longdistancerunner]

Sometimes you just take things the wrong way, it may have to do with body language, tone of voice. Your story to me doesn't sound being talked down to, just that you took it that way. It happens to me all the time, I think someone is rude and then when I talk to them again I realize I just took things the wrong way.