Knee High Boots Week 1

foxyforce

Hi ladies, do you mind if I join? :flowerforyou:

Me too? I wouldn't mind joining in this group! You gals seem very supportive of each other and let's face it -I need it ..hahaha

welcome barbara!

JoyousMaximus

lol, yeah...im with ya, im a bit of a procrastinator, and she doesn't expect everything done right away and still thinks im speedy. so it is good to just go out and shoot some pool. it has however really opened my eyes. i can't help buy role my eyes when i walk by a group of guys and they are talking about '*****es'.

I'm already suspicious of men so I think it would have a detrimental impact on my (already pathetic) relationship abilites.

KaitieBug

Welcome to the new joins!!

That is indeed some pretty serious stuff, Loathesome. Very impressive how maturely you are handling it! Are you studying this from a sociological prospective or what?

foxyforce

Welcome to the new joins!!

That is indeed some pretty serious stuff, Loathesome. Very impressive how maturely you are handling it! Are you studying this from a sociological prospective or what?

im a psych major but my supervisor is suprisingly a media professor. so i am taking a social psych viewpoint on it...so yeah, its pretty sociological. i like to think i take a systemic framework into it, but, its hard not to be biased.

JoyousMaximus

Last night, I ran two miles straight for the first time in my life then I turned into a babbling idiot talking with the hot trainer at the gym:grumble: :ohwell:

denitchy

Last night, I ran two miles straight for the first time in my life then I turned into a babbling idiot talking with the hot trainer at the gym:grumble: :ohwell:

Great job Joy!! I become a babbling idiot at times too!! :laugh:

czewwhat

And the decision has been made!


Azure Emanuel Briguglio is the new baby grandsons name! What do I know from Italian! When she post pictures I will forward! Welcome to the world Azure

NykkieC

Thanks for the welcome, Kaitie (I love the spelling of your name)!
Hope everyone is having a good day, I've fallen off the wagon lately and haven't been trying very hard to get back on...:embarassed:

NykkieC

And the decision has been made!


Azure Emanuel Briguglio is the new baby grandsons name! What do I know from Italian! When she post pictures I will forward! Welcome to the world Azure

Love the grandson's name CZ!

foxyforce

Last night, I ran two miles straight for the first time in my life then I turned into a babbling idiot talking with the hot trainer at the gym:grumble: :ohwell:

thank god for sexy men eh! congrats on the 2 miles

foxyforce

And the decision has been made!


Azure Emanuel Briguglio is the new baby grandsons name! What do I know from Italian! When she post pictures I will forward! Welcome to the world Azure

how do you pronounce that

A-Sir? but more z sounding?

KaitieBug

Thanks NykkieZ :happy: It's funny because I spell it that way because I think it looks prettier, and just to confuse people, because my real name, Caitlin, is spelled with a C. :laugh:

Congrats again, Cz! Can't wait to see the pix!! Indeedy, how do you pronounce that?

JM, it happens :ohwell: I think we all do that!!

Loathesome, I'm taking my first ever socio class this semester and you're right, it IS hard to examine situations without our normal biases but it is quite interesting to attempt it!! I suppose the trick is to detatch yourself emotionally. I LOVE my professor, she's so passionate about the subject and really likes to present controversial subjects and videos to us (keeps things interesting!) and I'm looking forward to taking some more psych classes if my ed. plan allows for it!

foxyforce

Thanks NykkieZ :happy: It's funny because I spell it that way because I think it looks prettier, and just to confuse people, because my real name, Caitlin, is spelled with a C. :laugh:

Congrats again, Cz! Can't wait to see the pix!! Indeedy, how do you pronounce that?

JM, it happens :ohwell: I think we all do that!!

Loathesome, I'm taking my first ever socio class this semester and you're right, it IS hard to examine situations without our normal biases but it is quite interesting to attempt it!! I suppose the trick is to detatch yourself emotionally. I LOVE my professor, she's so passionate about the subject and really likes to present controversial subjects and videos to us (keeps things interesting!) and I'm looking forward to taking some more psych classes if my ed. plan allows for it!

yeah the key word is "controversial", that is what is important in society so it sounds like you have a great prof. if you ever want to share anything, i would be happy to hear

i feel like crap this morning ladies, i slept through my alarm clock, or it is broken, bu ti bet i slept through it. which leads me to miss a class i have alerady missed like 3 of. and it is a small, 15 person class! and i sent my prof an email yesterday apologizing for not making it a prior priority and that i would see him today. i feel like totaly crap.

czewwhat

Azure pronounced Azz youre like azure blue


it means morning sky
The Italian spelling Azzuro means flapping magpie Thank god they picked the english spelling

foxyforce

Azure pronounced Azz youre like azure blue


it means morning sky
The Italian spelling Azzuro means flapping magpie Thank god they picked the english spelling

aw that is beautiful

czewwhat

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Azure Emanuel Briguglio New grandson. yes he looks like grandma! LOL
If you can so the picture post thingy so the pic is bigger please do!

Kityngirl

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Azure Emanuel Briguglio New grandson. yes he looks like grandma! LOL
If you can so the picture post thingy so the pic is bigger please do!

He's beautiful CZ!!! :flowerforyou:

NykkieC

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Azure Emanuel Briguglio New grandson. yes he looks like grandma! LOL
If you can so the picture post thingy so the pic is bigger please do!

What a beautiful baby!

Hi ladies, I need some advice:

I have a great job in theory, I work as a Sales Administration rep for my company and also deal with Customer Service. I get great pay, and I love working with people.

I have two wretched co-workers that make every day a living hell for me. They've been with the company longer than I've been alive and they feel like they are the king of the hill and what they say goes. They're complete bullies and it's gotten out of hand to the point where they make up things about me, such as: I leave early every day, I never take phone calls, I never put orders in, I just sit at my desk all day and do nothing.
I can barely get myself out of bed in the morning because I dread coming here so much and am so depressed (I am taking medication to help with this).

When I get home I am so mentally exhausted that many days I come home and cry and just want to spend time with my husband - I have slacked off on exercising to the point that I feel that it's a waste of time because it's taking time away from my time with my husband (he works 6 days a week a lot of times 9 hr days so while it's not terrible, we don't spend as much time as we'd like together).

My eating has been okay during the week but the weekends I just don't care anymore. Since I'm so frustrated with work it kind of bleeds into everything else.

Do you guys have any advice about how to get out of this rut? I don't like it and want to get back on the wagon especially since I am so close to my goal.

Thanks for reading my book haha.

foxyforce

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Azure Emanuel Briguglio New grandson. yes he looks like grandma! LOL
If you can so the picture post thingy so the pic is bigger please do!

What a beautiful baby!

Hi ladies, I need some advice:

I have a great job in theory, I work as a Sales Administration rep for my company and also deal with Customer Service. I get great pay, and I love working with people.

I have two wretched co-workers that make every day a living hell for me. They've been with the company longer than I've been alive and they feel like they are the king of the hill and what they say goes. They're complete bullies and it's gotten out of hand to the point where they make up things about me, such as: I leave early every day, I never take phone calls, I never put orders in, I just sit at my desk all day and do nothing.
I can barely get myself out of bed in the morning because I dread coming here so much and am so depressed (I am taking medication to help with this).

When I get home I am so mentally exhausted that many days I come home and cry and just want to spend time with my husband - I have slacked off on exercising to the point that I feel that it's a waste of time because it's taking time away from my time with my husband (he works 6 days a week a lot of times 9 hr days so while it's not terrible, we don't spend as much time as we'd like together).

My eating has been okay during the week but the weekends I just don't care anymore. Since I'm so frustrated with work it kind of bleeds into everything else.

Do you guys have any advice about how to get out of this rut? I don't like it and want to get back on the wagon especially since I am so close to my goal.

Thanks for reading my book haha.

have you ever talked to the bullies about their behavior?

i'm sorry you are going through a hard time. i have had a coworker that i really hated because she was such a mean person but never anyone who was that bad. however, i would talk to her had things gotten worse. she was mean to others instead of me, and i had always plannedo n talking to her, but if never put me over the edge where i came home in tears. she would pull files on clients from her other jobs to show me just so i wouldn't advocate for them...yet it was my job to advocate. just really unethicical unprofessional behavior. i would advocate anyway, and still meet with my clients, but she just always acted like i did't know how to do my job just because she has been in the field for like 20 years longer that me...but hello burn out!
talk to them. ask them, "what gives you the impression that i don't do my work around here?" "we are all valuable employees here" and a good foreceful "if you have a problem with me, that will effect your ability to work, it has been effecting mine, and i have no problem in seeking mediation on this matter so that we are both working in a productive environment" and then report their *kitten*!

NykkieC

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Azure Emanuel Briguglio New grandson. yes he looks like grandma! LOL
If you can so the picture post thingy so the pic is bigger please do!

What a beautiful baby!

Hi ladies, I need some advice:

I have a great job in theory, I work as a Sales Administration rep for my company and also deal with Customer Service. I get great pay, and I love working with people.

I have two wretched co-workers that make every day a living hell for me. They've been with the company longer than I've been alive and they feel like they are the king of the hill and what they say goes. They're complete bullies and it's gotten out of hand to the point where they make up things about me, such as: I leave early every day, I never take phone calls, I never put orders in, I just sit at my desk all day and do nothing.
I can barely get myself out of bed in the morning because I dread coming here so much and am so depressed (I am taking medication to help with this).

When I get home I am so mentally exhausted that many days I come home and cry and just want to spend time with my husband - I have slacked off on exercising to the point that I feel that it's a waste of time because it's taking time away from my time with my husband (he works 6 days a week a lot of times 9 hr days so while it's not terrible, we don't spend as much time as we'd like together).

My eating has been okay during the week but the weekends I just don't care anymore. Since I'm so frustrated with work it kind of bleeds into everything else.

Do you guys have any advice about how to get out of this rut? I don't like it and want to get back on the wagon especially since I am so close to my goal.

Thanks for reading my book haha.

have you ever talked to the bullies about their behavior?

i'm sorry you are going through a hard time. i have had a coworker that i really hated because she was such a mean person but never anyone who was that bad. however, i would talk to her had things gotten worse. she was mean to others instead of me, and i had always plannedo n talking to her, but if never put me over the edge where i came home in tears. she would pull files on clients from her other jobs to show me just so i wouldn't advocate for them...yet it was my job to advocate. just really unethicical unprofessional behavior. i would advocate anyway, and still meet with my clients, but she just always acted like i did't know how to do my job just because she has been in the field for like 20 years longer that me...but hello burn out!
talk to them. ask them, "what gives you the impression that i don't do my work around here?" "we are all valuable employees here" and a good foreceful "if you have a problem with me, that will effect your ability to work, it has been effecting mine, and i have no problem in seeking mediation on this matter so that we are both working in a productive environment" and then report their *kitten*!

I forgot to mention that it's a super small company, there's only 6 of us in the office, and 2 salesmen that work out of their home.
She (there's one that's worse than the other) does everything behind my back and is super sweet to me to my face, so she'll just deny that she said anything like that. She's 10 times as cruel to our HR gal and she's pretty much thrown in the towel. Our CEO doesn't really do anything about it either, but she was suspended for all of this about a month ago. She was good for about 2 weeks and it all started again but worse.

Our CEO finally got sick of the he said she said and is making us tally every single thing we do (calls, e-mails, orders put in) and she looks 10 times better than me on paper even though we're "supposed" to be equal - she knows things that she will never share with me so she always has the upper hand. I feel like I'm taking a test that I will fail every day. :ohwell:

I worked at another company for 2 years prior to this one and it was a huge company with a great HR system and clear boundaries on what would and wouldn't be tolerated. I had a bad co-worker there too but I had such a great group of co-workers other than her it never really bothered me and she did it to my face so I called her out on it and she stopped. I'm pretty much singled out here and my only ally is one of the guys that works from his home - he's two states away!

Thanks loathesome for your advice and thank you for letting me vent!

foxyforce

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Azure Emanuel Briguglio New grandson. yes he looks like grandma! LOL
If you can so the picture post thingy so the pic is bigger please do!

What a beautiful baby!

Hi ladies, I need some advice:

I have a great job in theory, I work as a Sales Administration rep for my company and also deal with Customer Service. I get great pay, and I love working with people.

I have two wretched co-workers that make every day a living hell for me. They've been with the company longer than I've been alive and they feel like they are the king of the hill and what they say goes. They're complete bullies and it's gotten out of hand to the point where they make up things about me, such as: I leave early every day, I never take phone calls, I never put orders in, I just sit at my desk all day and do nothing.
I can barely get myself out of bed in the morning because I dread coming here so much and am so depressed (I am taking medication to help with this).

When I get home I am so mentally exhausted that many days I come home and cry and just want to spend time with my husband - I have slacked off on exercising to the point that I feel that it's a waste of time because it's taking time away from my time with my husband (he works 6 days a week a lot of times 9 hr days so while it's not terrible, we don't spend as much time as we'd like together).

My eating has been okay during the week but the weekends I just don't care anymore. Since I'm so frustrated with work it kind of bleeds into everything else.

Do you guys have any advice about how to get out of this rut? I don't like it and want to get back on the wagon especially since I am so close to my goal.

Thanks for reading my book haha.

have you ever talked to the bullies about their behavior?

i'm sorry you are going through a hard time. i have had a coworker that i really hated because she was such a mean person but never anyone who was that bad. however, i would talk to her had things gotten worse. she was mean to others instead of me, and i had always plannedo n talking to her, but if never put me over the edge where i came home in tears. she would pull files on clients from her other jobs to show me just so i wouldn't advocate for them...yet it was my job to advocate. just really unethicical unprofessional behavior. i would advocate anyway, and still meet with my clients, but she just always acted like i did't know how to do my job just because she has been in the field for like 20 years longer that me...but hello burn out!
talk to them. ask them, "what gives you the impression that i don't do my work around here?" "we are all valuable employees here" and a good foreceful "if you have a problem with me, that will effect your ability to work, it has been effecting mine, and i have no problem in seeking mediation on this matter so that we are both working in a productive environment" and then report their *kitten*!

I forgot to mention that it's a super small company, there's only 6 of us in the office, and 2 salesmen that work out of their home.
She (there's one that's worse than the other) does everything behind my back and is super sweet to me to my face, so she'll just deny that she said anything like that. She's 10 times as cruel to our HR gal and she's pretty much thrown in the towel. Our CEO doesn't really do anything about it either, but she was suspended for all of this about a month ago. She was good for about 2 weeks and it all started again but worse.

Our CEO finally got sick of the he said she said and is making us tally every single thing we do (calls, e-mails, orders put in) and she looks 10 times better than me on paper even though we're "supposed" to be equal - she knows things that she will never share with me so she always has the upper hand. I feel like I'm taking a test that I will fail every day. :ohwell:

I worked at another company for 2 years prior to this one and it was a huge company with a great HR system and clear boundaries on what would and wouldn't be tolerated. I had a bad co-worker there too but I had such a great group of co-workers other than her it never really bothered me and she did it to my face so I called her out on it and she stopped. I'm pretty much singled out here and my only ally is one of the guys that works from his home - he's two states away!

Thanks loathesome for your advice and thank you for letting me vent!

if she does everything behind your back, i would still bring it up with her, just ask her "Are we ok?" "How do you find our working relationship" kill her with kindness and humility. if it is small, everyone else will see it and have your back for the most part. if not, then just keep your chin up.

NykkieC

Thank you - I think I may request to talk to her with our HR gal and CEO present.

denitchy

Thank you - I think I may request to talk to her with our HR gal and CEO present.

That's a great idea!
Funny that you mention your problems today, of all days, because I'm going through the same type of BS, and today was overly frustrating. My biggest problem is that it's not a co-worker, it's my boss!!! He's just a manager, I'm dating one of the VP's... so I have a relationship with other VP's outside of work. They feel they can approach me when they need things done, but "nose-picker" (that's what I call my boss :laugh: ) thinks it's going over his head, likes to pound his chest "I'm the man and you need to do what I say, nobody else". He gets VERY annoying! :explode: Little does he realize I'm only waiting for them to find my replacement, then my promotion goes through and I won't have to deal with him anymore.... :drinker: I am SOOOOO looking forward to it!

JoyousMaximus

I can't make it better for either of you so :flowerforyou: I hope things get better.:smooched:

denitchy

I can't make it better for either of you so :flowerforyou: I hope things get better.:smooched:

Thank you Joy! :bigsmile: I hope you're having a great day!! :smokin:

NykkieC

Thank you - I think I may request to talk to her with our HR gal and CEO present.

That's a great idea!
Funny that you mention your problems today, of all days, because I'm going through the same type of BS, and today was overly frustrating. My biggest problem is that it's not a co-worker, it's my boss!!! He's just a manager, I'm dating one of the VP's... so I have a relationship with other VP's outside of work. They feel they can approach me when they need things done, but "nose-picker" (that's what I call my boss :laugh: ) thinks it's going over his head, likes to pound his chest "I'm the man and you need to do what I say, nobody else". He gets VERY annoying! :explode: Little does he realize I'm only waiting for them to find my replacement, then my promotion goes through and I won't have to deal with him anymore.... :drinker: I am SOOOOO looking forward to it!

I sure hope your promotion goes through soon! It just makes your day horrible to have such negative energy around doesn't it?

Thanks Joy for your sweet words!

foxyforce

i want to order kfc before i get on my bus

help!!!!

JoyousMaximus

Check in: No change. :ohwell: My fault for eating everythign I want.. still.

Kityngirl

check in - 172 Down a pound!!! :drinker:

foxyforce

i don't want to check in this week. i've been sucking. congrats on the lb lost