Friday,19-Jun-2009 :
Today, I had an unexpected tiff with a female colleague...lets call her "Pesky"....Pesky is known to be irritating and picking up figts unwantedly...
Since I never had to work with her, I never had much interaction.....so, Pesky's tiff with me was a big suprise.....
It all started when we were celebrating another colleague's bde at food court..let's name the b'de gal ,"Mimani"..Mimani was Pesky's team mate..As per the custom in the department, Pesky or another team member had to get a cake.
Pesky came to the food court with another girl...and saw that our small group was about to celebrate Mimani's bde..Pesky saw us...... She and her friend got the cake and left...And then ,she started bombarding Mimani with calls....Mimani told her that she would be back in 5 minutes...Obviously Pesky didn't want us to celebrate first......
Mimani 's husband too came and Mimani was ready to cut the cake...It was not even a minute since Pesky called and Mimani told her that it would take 5 minutes..But this is Pesky and she continued calling.....So, I picked up and asked her "did u send message to everybody in the department to come to tea room?"..well, that is how we normally celebrate......But Pesky did not respond......I then asked her "Is the cake set up ready at the tea place?".."who all r waiting?"... asked her repeatedly ..all she would say is "give 2 Mimani"..that too in a harsh tone....i then told her "don't worry, Mimani will be there in 5 minutes and so, you can keep the phone down"......
as promised, Mimani rushed back to cut the cake her team had got her...and there, in front of others, Pesky was being very rude to me.......saying things like "I learnt something 2day"....i said "good, at last you learnt something after a long time".....But Pesky was unnecessarily arguing.......................
Later ,she complained to "Malti", our common friend...and started lying........i told Malti the exact things i had told Pesky.......Pesky was saying something else.....I think Pesky does not understand English well..so that could be the problem....
Actually, Pesky had problems and tiffs with many others...Earlier with a few people, she had an arguments unncessarily......and then she would threaten to complain about them........
Now, Pesky is not abright performer..she is far from that....she is ,in fact, a very poor performer but then, how could she argue with many people and get away with that??? Well, she has the RIGHT CONTACTS...
She got the job because of her CONTACTS..........And so, despite being a poor performer and a dull looking and boring person, she gets to go to the team she wants and also, unnecessarily picks up fights with people and threaten to complain abouut them........
Despite her body of poor work ,team leads can not do anything as she has ,yeah right, the magic word again ,CONTACTS...........
I wish Pesky would realize that the job that she has, is not based on her merit but only because of influence and so, must be gratefulto her "stars". ....Instead of using her limited brains to trouble others, she must concentrate and try to prove herself to be a good resource at work..
