Recently we just fired a woman we've so lovingly deemed "Agent B" for "Bitch." Her name starts with a "C," but they didn't want her to accidentally hear them talking about her and derive from the "C" that they were actually referring to her. If she was indeed smart enough to figure it out. So they went with "B" and it stuck. Even for me.
Somehow this woman is a little slow. How, I may never know. Maybe she was dropped on her head as a baby? Repeatedly? On purpose to get her to shut up? I just don't know. Poor thing. But regardless of the cause, we suffer the effects. Daily! You'd think we would have been rid of her after she was terminated, right? WRONG! This woman has not ceased to email, text or call at least one person at LEAST once a day since the day she was let go. I think it has rarely, if ever, been just one person per day, and it's even rare that it's only once a day per that person, though sometimes she will slow down the barrage of pointless communications that she throws at us. Yes, us. I am included in that list.
"HI ALAINA HOW RU?" "HI ALAINA I HOPE U AND YOUR FAMILY HAVE A SAFE AND HAPPY NEW YEAR" "HI ALAINA HOW WAS YOUR NEW YEARS?"
Always simple things like this, always all caps, and always my name! I love my name! Love it. But this woman is making me cringe whenever someone says it. I will read in an email from a guy from elementary school, "Have a good day Alaina and I'll talk to you later." Ugh! I used to love it when guys said my name. Will that day ever come again? I might kill me an ex-employee if it doesn't.
Anyway, so there are at least 7 of us who are being constantly bombarded and stalked by this woman. None of us will answer her, we just ignore her hoping that she'll get the picture. Right? WRONG! She never gets it! Finally we ask her to stop. We tell our security people what's going on and they call her and demand that she stop. Some of us block her email address and her phone number. Guess what? She's still at it! Can you believe that? She's, what? Mid 40's? Married! Get a life, woman! Let go of the past that you had control over, but did nothing with and therefore lost control of. That's how life goes! Deal.
Finally we - "we" being several of us, including security - tell her that if she ever contacts us again, we will contact the police and file a harassment complaint.
"I'M NOT HARASSING ANYONE I AM JUST TRYING TO BE FRIENDS WHAT IS WRONG WITH THAT I AM NOT A BAD PERSON!"
So now what do I get? I get peace and quiet for about 2 days. Then the blank texts start coming. Joy. A new email address shows up in email boxes with the same subject lines of things like, "I got a new job yeah!" and nothing in the body of the email. So we are asked to take all of those emails (very, very many of those) and forward them to HR. I wonder what they've done with them? I wonder if it will even matter? I wonder if anyone will take their threat and follow through with it in taking it to the police? I sure hope so. I wonder if I have grounds to do that since all I'm getting now is blank texts? She's not accidentally sending those. I've never gotten one before from her in the entire almost-year that she had my number (why in the HELL did I ever give her the damn thing??) I even got one today.
I can't say anything of how I really feel about the biotch to anyone at work (though I do, anyway, to one of my friends who isn't in the department). I keep it to "I'm so sorry you're going through this!" and "What is she thinking?" So it's such a nice relief to be able to say she's a freak somewhere.
You can tell she's not really part of the group. Poor woman.
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