The Shit Hit The Fan Today At Work (Not Narc Safe)

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#1 Apr 3 - 6PM
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The Shit Hit The Fan Today At Work (Not Narc Safe)

As if co-habitating with a narc wasn't bad enough - I also work with one - this woman is a full-blown psychopath. I don't throw the word "psychopath" around casually - but her f'n picture should be next to the word in the dictionary.

She is a lead consultant and another girl and I are the service team on our book of business. "Lead consultant" to this nut job means - hob nob, go out to dinner, then delegate to us with ambiguity/micromanage with a laser.

She assigns menial tasks to us, questions everything we do, makes us do her work/research for her, everything has to be redone multiple times, all deliverables have to be custom; she won't use the standard issue we have as a company, etc...three clients have demanded that she be removed from their accounts because they find her to be condescending and ignorant. One of them calls her "Miss 'Be Well'" (this is how she signs her emails_)...fake phony bitch that she is. My co-worker and I still have the accounts, but she has been removed from them...which only brought her wrath down upon us! She openly maligns upper management, and went off on some twisted rant in a conference room during a team meeting a couple months ago, accusing upper management of being "war criminals" who use reward/punishment to psychologically abuse POW's in Japanese interment camps during WWII. Not only was that a completely insane analogy, it was historically and factually inaccurate. The referenced method of "torture" was actually perpetrated against AMERICAN POW's held by the North Koreans during the Korean War (unfortunately for her, I'm a history buff). Did I mention she's married to a man of Japanese birth? So my co-worker and I walk out of that meeting, I stop outside the conference room, look at my co-worker and ask "WHAT the fuck was THAT all about??? Is it just me, or do you also feel like you just got hit upside the head with a big bag of crazy?"

She speaks almost exclusively in buzzwords; and whenever she hears a word she "likes"...she uses it ad nauseum - for instance, I used the word "vetted" in a conversation - it now appears in every single email she sends. LOL!

ANYway, she is a classic workplace bully/harasser. I know in the UK, there are anti-Bullying laws - in the US, however, there are none. Unfortunately for her, the company I work for has a very clearly stated policy regarding bullying and harassment. We have been compiling a dossier of incidents to establish a pattern of harassment on her part - because that's what gives a bullying complaint its teeth. We have been suffering under her Machiavellian reign for months, miserable as all hell and biding our time.

Our evidence was complete and in to HR we went on Friday with the lot of it. It came to a head today. Apparently, one of the members of upper management (Sr. VP level) had a come to Jesus meeting with her in her office. I wasn't in the office at the time, but my co-worker called me to tell me she looked totally beat to shit, disheveled and in a state of shock. I believe she was either fired, or told that we are being removed from her book of business as a team.

I'll find out more tomorrow. I don't look forward to going into the office, but dammit - when I left the ex-narc, I swore to myself that I would NEVER tolerate abuse at the hand of another disordered person ever again. I'm not out to see her fired, but if that's the consequence she has to bear, then that's her problem. All I know is that I want her to have no input in my day to day work life, my career path or anything else for that matter.

Still a little freaked out!

Apr 3 - 7PM
Hunter
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They are everywhere aren't

Apr 3 - 7PM (Reply to #2)
Renegade
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OMG they certainly are! She

Apr 3 - 7PM (Reply to #5)
Dorothy1
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I'm sure she blamed that on

Apr 3 - 7PM (Reply to #3)
Hunter
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Stay away as much as

Apr 3 - 8PM (Reply to #4)
Renegade
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She is seriously one of the