Am I wrong? Please tell me if I am (like there's any doubt of that).
Some background: The Office Thug got pissed as hell at me for daring to ask about a deduction she and her stooge were making to everyone's paychecks (too complicated, won't go into it except to say she didn't give any info on it and made it sound like we might be taxed on thousands of dollars of life insurance rather than the premiums), via email which accidentally made it to "all enterprise." I was flying through some work and fired the damned thing off, and aw shit, you can't recall a global email. (One of those days! I'd replied back on a question to the forwarder, too. Ugh. An egg-sucking day all around.) Gotta wonder if she'd been so fried if someone else had sent it. Anyway I apologized to OT but apparently that wasn't good enough. She very pointedly excluded me from a lunch she and the other women in our area went out for. I am normally included and she's made a big deal how we're all such buddies, not that it's ever the highlight of my week, but it's a political thing. Added to that, a morning greeting lately but before "the incident" was met by rolled eyes. Okay...what is the beef? So, okay, fine, I get the message. I'm not "cool." I told one of the other women in the group who'd stopped to apologize for leaving me with the front desk unannounced (I wandered out and there it was), when I had a taxpayer meeting to run to, that I was not going to participate in the gifting this year. I told her if it's that easy to turn cold shoulders to me, or to go along with the gang leader in such behavior, then I'm not faking it by handing out the customary token Christmas gifts. I'm sure if OT didn't hear, she was told.
So, the next day, OT tries to hand me her fucking card and candy cane! I flat out politely refused to accept it. She tried to insist and I held firm. She's now twittered off to her best buddy the HR lady. Something's afoot. I can hear enough to know, but not the detail. Great. Am I to expect a calling on the carpet for not relating? If relating means playing pretend nicey-nicey with some bitch after she's treated me like shit, I'll pass.
Am I wrong?
