You know what one of my biggest “bug bears” is? It is rudeness or total lack of manners. Even though my parents weren’t the best, one thing they instilled in us all is the importance of having respect and being polite, after all, manners cost nothing.
That is the same logic I have instilled in my preschooler. She knows exactly how to behave in public and I am very proud to admit that one of her first words was “please”.
So, you can imagine my absolute horror when I started my new job and discovered that the “High Priestess of Rudeness” was completely enmeshed in the company that everybody just wrote off her rudeness as normal.
I had been warned by other staff members to watch out for the high priestess, but luckily, she appeared to like me and I was never subjected to her “wrath”. Until of course about 3 weeks ago.
That was when everything changed and I was suddenly public enemy number 1. I was and still am at a total loss as to why she suddenly decided that I was the reason for all that was wrong in her life. She started to treat me as though I had the mentality of a flea and instructing me in such a condescending way, I was rendered speechless.
So I figured the best way to deal with the nastiness was to be so sickeningly nice that she would have no choice but to see what a nice person I was and see the error of her ways….
Alas, no, that only seemed to further enrage the High Priestess so she was even ruder and nastier to me than ever before. I then thought I would try another tack and not speak to her unless absolutely necessary. But that didn’t work either -that just further added fuel to her fire and she started to bad mouth to anyone who would listen.
Yep, once again I was totally gobsmacked at the sheer pettiness of this woman. I mean she is not young and she has been working for this particular company since the early 70’s, I pose absolutely no threat to her, I mean in the grand scheme of things I am nothing but a plebe at work whereas she is very high up. I would be OK with this whole situation if I had actually done something, but after many days of trying to figure out exactly what i have done, I still have no clue. Why does she not just come and say something to me about what I have done so we can then just work it out and move on?
Obviously that is not going to happen and it really is a pointless exercise letting this horrible woman upset me anymore than she already has. I just still don’t understand why some people have to be so rude and nasty, what is the point??