ARRGH!!!

The good feeling that I carried from the weekend did not make the journey into today and so I shall continue Friday’s rant about IT.

About three weeks ago we (the team) had our PA’s, in which I laid my feelings about IT out. I spent a sizable chunk of my time with the Boss Lady telling her about why I was unhappy at work. She said that she noticed that my personality had changed since Jan, no shit Sherlock, I wonder what could have happened in Jan. So eventually IT has his PA and she tells him that he needed to sort his shit out with the rest of the team. He decides to speak to each member of the team individually (I think it was a divide and conquer strategy), while I was away on vacation. When I get back, I hear about their discussions with IT and how he was so sorry (BLAH, BLAH), and so I’m expecting him to talk to me. It is now the third week and he has yet to speak too me. Here I am thinking he is going to apologise, and I had planed a whole speech about what I was going to say. It was along the lines of “I don’t accept your apology because you are only apologising because the boss asked you to…” I was clearly not planning to rollover and play nice, but I never got my shot.

Last Thursday things came to a head, when the elevator doors closed on me as we were leaving the building (the whole team was there), everyone else was worried about me being hurt but that fucken bitch was laughing. I know that I should have expected this, but it really pissed me off. I don’t think I mentioned this but I travelled to work with him and White Boy (because we save on petrol that way). So for the entire drive home I’m trying desperately to pretend that he does not exist, but he keeps on tapping his keys so I turn up the music and he just taps louder. I get home really miserable and the boyfriend phones and I tell him about what has happened, and we get into a fight about IT (I won’t go into details). Now this upsets me further because now I see that he has been really affecting my personal life. I made a decision that in order to maintain a level of sanity I’ve got to have some time between work and home when I don’t have to be around him. So I sent him this email:

After much consideration (didn’t really take me that long) I'm afraid that our traveling arrangement no longer suits me and as a result I have decided to terminate the arrangement and drive in on my own. I have already sent [White Boy] an email similar to this and he has decided that he would prefer to travel with me as we have similar timetables after work. As this coming week is the beginning of a new cycle for the lift club, it will make no financial difference to any of us if it is terminated starting this coming Monday (15/05/2006).

He never emailed back or mentioned it to White Boy or me (well I don’t talk him at all). I thought he would of emailed back with an ok or something. Thank goodness for read receipts or I would have never know that he had read it. I am happy to report that I no longer start my day on a bad note or end it that way. Which makes for a much happier Spice.
Original art work contributed by White Boy.