Workplace Drama

Well, just when I thought my life was really starting to get boring, especially compared to those of my friends, drama found its way back into my life.

Not really. I'm not sure this even really affects me at all, but it does break things up a bit.

So to get to the point - you know how people say that looking for a job is sort of like dating? You go on short interviews with all these people, if they like you they call you in couple days, and maybe you go on a second date/interview. And if you really like each other, you get together, at least for a while.

Well I think quitting is also like breaking up. When I quit a few months back, it was very much like that. We really liked each other but it just wasn't perfect. I cried. (I always do that it's very annoying.)

Anyways, someone quit at my work this week. Nobody really wanted to tell me what was going on. They told me to be glad I wasn't really involved. Which is annoying, but I understand. The problem is that in a company so small the line between the business world and the personal one is almost nonexistent. And so in general, that makes things really really tough. And I personally am glad that my relationship with this person leaving will go unscathed. Unless something goes horribly awry.

This is a particularly messy breakup--I mean, departure... It would be like if you were thinking about breaking up with someone, and mentioned it to one of your friends, but you weren't sure yet, and then your special someone heard it through the grapevine (but garbled of course) and so they called all your friends and told them what a horrible person you were, made a big scene, and burnt everything you had bought each other, and some other stuff too. Seriously it's really like that. (It involves calling clients and deleting files and stuff, but still.)

It wasn't exactly "good form," and it was very certainly an emotional reaction. It seems like it's a really difficult in general, and in some ways I am glad to know next to nothing about it, although it's still annoying to be told I don't need to know.

So, as stressed out as this made us, we went to lunch on Friday, which is only the third time I've eaten with anyone I work with. And only the fourth time in my whole "career" because the same was true at Morningstar. Everybody eats at their desks. I think it's unhealthy to sit still all day, even if I'm only going on a ten minute walk. They claim that it's because it's cheap, but I really don't think that Lean Pockets cost that much less than a fresh sub from Subway (a nice turkey is like 3.25) or a yummy salad or baked potato from wendys. And of course there's the nice coffee shop / cafe and the italian place, but that gets expensive and boring so I don't go there too often.

So we went to a pretty authentic Mexican place on the South Side.... Taco Loco I think? Damn it's good. I had a mushroom quesadilla, a chicken taco, and a chicken burrito (which was a mistake because it was HUGE. and i still ate all of it. and was very ashamed.) But soooo good. It makes me miss Chipotle, but it was just as good. :)