Thorn in My Panties

I had a boss a while back that told me that wherever I worked there would be a few awesome co-workers that go above and beyond, most co-workers would be adequate, and one or two that would be thorns in your panties. I have found that to be pretty much true.

There is a man I work with that is a major thorn in my panties. He is lazy. He is pompous. He pretends to know it all even though he has not learned one new thing in our field since he graduated.

I won't go into all the details of how it came to be, but just know that he is an A plus ass that expects everyone to stop what they are doing when he is having a problem. Last week he had some equipment go down. I told him he could come to my site and pick up the replacement equipment and I would handle getting the broken equipment fixed. He felt like he should not have to come to my site so he told a supervisor that I was not doing my job. In other words- he tattled on me. WTF? Well, it came back around to me and pissed me off, because my job is not to deliver his crap. It went up the chain of command and he basically was made to look bad in front of his supervisor by our head boss because our boss backed me up. So now he is not speaking to me. Can I tell you that I am shedding tears? I can't believe a grown man who is supposed to be a professional is not speaking to me. I felt bad for him because he really got in trouble, but then the highschool part of me is gloating because he thought he was going to make me look bad and it backfired on him.

So, no longer a thorn in my panties... just sand in the crotch of my swimsuit.