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I cried at work yesterday.

I'm new still I've been here like 2 weeks max and this ratchet ho who works afternoons was being nasty to me and another new girl who I was showing the ropes to yesterday because it was her first day. She was told to come see me and we spent all morning long working together in harmony as I was teaching her the job. I do laundry at a nursing home now and I honestly do like the job and the morning coworkers are great and I don't have issues with the night people either it's just this chick. I'm not the greatest at folding yet I'm still learning and trying and my trainee was trying too. I told this chick it was her first day and I gave her a rundown of what I showed her because I was leaving in 2 hours and it would just be those two. This chick begins dogging me for my folding when I was just about to redo it because it looked funky. I got tired of it so I put the blanket back into the bin and said that they can continue working out here and I'll just work in the back on the machines. She followed me back there and was like did you wash the mops heads and I said no there's not enough for a load yet. I was told to not underfill the machines because it can throw them out of alignment or something by my trainer. She was like we need this and that and I said it's being washed you have to be patient.

I come back out to clean since I was about to go home and she was like do you know what time linens get delivered snottily and I said yeah 430/5pm I'm off by then usually. I ended up crying in my car because she was just being so nasty to me and I don't know what I did. Whenever others are around she's not like this. My trainee came to me today and told me she was saying oh Lily taught you how to do this I can tell or why do they got a new girl training you or I'm going to have to redo all of her folding when there's not a damn thing wrong with it. Mine looks the same as everyone else's. Everyone else says I'm doing a great job and my trainer thought I was doing a great job teaching. I was trusted to teach early on. I don't want to go in anymore because of this chick she makes me uncomfortable and I feel unwelcome around her. Mind you she is just as new as I am she started a week before I did and we both were getting trained on a lot of the same things at the same time.

My trainee also told me that she was being told to sort beyond what we are required to do and she was made to underfill the washers and run them. She was also made to do all the grunt work so that chick didn't have to. Turns out my trainee and I have mutual friends outside of work and we actually did meet a few years ago at a street fair but I had forgotten but she remembered my face.

I don't know I don't have the mental strength to fight this chick. I was just settling in and feeling confident too then she decides to be like that. I'm contemplating quitting already if I'm being honest even though I don't want to do that.
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I strongly urge you not to give some moron this kind of power over you. You don’t need to fight, you just need to have the backbone to stand up for yourself a couple of times and I can assure you she’ll back down. Bullies sniff out the weak. Show her you’re not among them. Have some confidence in yourself which you should based on all the positive feedback you’ve gotten from others at the job.
apersonnamedit · 26-30, T
@OlderSometimesWiser I did have confidence training my trainee that day. We were talking and having a good time while I was showing her things. I don't know what her problem is but I'm not doing this crap with her.
@apersonnamedit Then steer clear but if she comes at you, stand up for yourself. She’s certainly not worth driving you out of a job you enjoy and are good at.
apersonnamedit · 26-30, T
@OlderSometimesWiser Unfortunately our shifts overlap by 2.5 hours so I do get stuck seeing her sometimes.
@apersonnamedit Then you know what to do. Take control of the situation and do not allow yourself to be treated poorly. I’m telling you, snap back at her a few times and she’ll move along to bullying someone else, if she even lasts that long.
apersonnamedit · 26-30, T
@OlderSometimesWiser Thing is she's how do I say this without coming off a certain way..... she's rather hood and larger than me by a longshot. I know her type she will pop off.
@apersonnamedit Come off a certain way in a language she’ll understand, she needs to know you’re not weak. You obviously need to start doing something different. Looking through your profile, I see you have a lot of problems with jobs. Make this a time for change and stand up for yourself!
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@apersonnamedit Only if you allow it. If you want something different, you’ll have to do something different. Otherwise this cycle you’re in will never stop repeating. There will always be obstacles in life, you need to learn how to overcome them and now’s your chance to get some practice. I wish you strength, courage and all the best.