This is it. After this weekend, I have five work days left with the person who I am replacing.
I can make it.
I can.
Right?
No, I know I can.
Hopefully this weekend will give me the refresh I need to survive this week without letting the rage build up.
That's the only way I can put it. Her attitude changes at the drop of a hat and when it's for the worst I kind of just want to walk away from her. She has totally checked out, and I get that, but quit the back and forth and teach me.
There was something that we had got involved with inadvertently and because of some unbeknownst reason she hates our supervisor so she didn't want to take care of it. When one of our associates was letting us know that she forwarded a follow up email to us I said, "Okay, I will take care of it." To which my trainer replied, "No, it's still my account, I'll take care of it." And she never did because she can't keep track of her emails if her life depended on it.
You know how sometimes you can feel negativity emanating from someone? Yea, I feel that way every time I am sitting next to her and I get caught up in a conversation with the other people in our department. I can just feel her seething that I am laughing and talking with other people. You know me, I have tried to be personable with her and joke, and treat her how I want to be treated. Sometimes it's all good and we are getting along great and then her meds wear off (I have no idea if she is medicated) and she becomes this snippity cranky biatch.
She finally admitted today that my brain works WAY faster than hers does. Which I thanked her for the compliment.
Then she proceeded to snap at me because I asked if we should take care of something and she said no we needed to do this other thing we had been working on. I said okay, and then not five minutes later she is like, "Oh, we need to take care of this other thing right right now," Mind you, this other thing was no more critical than what I had suggested we take care of. I had to remind her five times that I was leaving at lunch for the day and fuck me when I actually left. I felt the daggers flying out of her eyes.
The whole plan with the three weeks of training was that at the end of each week I would take one of the three "groups" she has. With me taking over each group there are records for contact info that needs to be updated in our system and with other departments. She keeps saying how I need to get these profiles updated. I swear to bob if she says it again I am going back to my desk to do it and be done with them.
Back to the transitioning of groups.
We didn't even make it through the group of ten, yes ten, accounts we needed to for this week. Why? Because she is so horribly out of touch with her email and behind on day to day work (and has been since well before I started training with her) she can't keep shit straight. She will spend more than a half an hour "freaking out" (I can think of no other way to describe it) about an email, from a week ago, THAT HAS HAD MULTIPLE SUCCEEDING EMAILS AFTER IT. Me, if it were me reading her emails, I would skim through, group shit by "SUBJECT" (rather than her method of who sent them...) and find the appropriate place to respond. She makes herself look like a fool when she is literally re-working stuff that our associates in other departments and plants have already handled and provided info on.
But heaven help my dumb ass if I suggest one fucking thing to help her do the job easier.
It's crap like this that gives me confidence I will be fine doing this.
So, back to the accounts for this week. In response to her stating that we needed to get through them this week at 12pm today I (again, stupid me trying to be helpful) commented that I was feeling pretty good about what we had covered and that there was only one we weren't able to really touch on. And fuck, the way she looked at me you'd think I suggested we go home and kill her dog. She then snapped at me that she wants to go over each one in detail because they are ALL SO DIFFERENT.....
The final group we have to go over in the next five business days consists of roughly twenty accounts.
We are never going to make it through that shit the way she is doing this. It's not humanly possible.
To "go over" an account what she is doing is taking any emails in her inbox for that customer and putting them in a special folder and then I get to watch her SLOWLY go through the emails one by one and watch her freak out because she isn't following the conversations properly. No joking here, I spent almost three hours, THREE HOURS Tuesday or Wednesday (I can't even remember the days anymore) sitting at her desk doing nothing because I HAD to watch as she went through these emails. And I learned right quick just to keep my mouth shut.
Monday I have my one on one with my supervisor. I was going to reschedule it for the next week when the biatch will finally be gone but realistically I will need the break from her. I will give her the light version of my debriefing and also talk to her about my other accounts that I was trying to maintain and retain during this transition but I feel that I have been neglectful to them. I have two orders and two credits pending on my desk and I just haven't been able to enter them. And lord knows what else is in the emails I couldn't look at today.
Five days. Five more days of work and then I will be off on my own floating in a sea of exciting new stuff. Rest assured, the person training me is not the only source of knowledge regarding the stuff I will be doing. In fact, she herself has only been managing the accounts since January... Yea, January of this year....
I must admit that all this madness associated with my promotion has completely got my mind off ticking the days down until we move... And then it hits me like a freight train that most likely we are moving in two weeks... To the day.... All that I have left to pack is the kitchen essentials and bathroom stuff. I will most likely be packing that up next weekend, except for the day to day stuff.
I hope you all had a fun and safe Halloween (or are still celebrating a fun and safe Halloween).
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