O Canada... a blog about work

Funny. I have become Canada/Switzerland at work. My magazine only involves around 9 - 10 people, but the office politics, bad blood, and cat fights are exhausting and extreme. I really don't know HOW I got to this point in my life where I am exerting the most obvious symptoms of middle-child syndrome ever... HOW DID IT HAPPEN that I grew up to become pleasantly neutral and super accommodating in that I am the only person no one dislikes and everyone actually confides in AND can carry on a decent conversation with. I dunno, I think I turned out to be a rather "nice" person compared to all these girls I work with. I mean the way they go at each other behind their backs, it scares the crap out of me. I just nod and say "yeah I see what u mean, but she's not THAT bad a person really, just doesn't know what she's doing." Because it's true! They are all "nice" people (because they are to ME, so I know), just not to each other, u know what I mean? There's one girl who seems to hate EVERYONE except one other person and me, and I am surprised she gets on with me because I have the unenviable job of telling her what to do, and she's the type of person who doesn't like to be told what to do. This girl is even getting another new girl, who is sweet as can be and also only confides in me, fired soon! New girl accidentally found out they are hiring for her position.

This is exactly what my husband means when he says "any gossip from work? Your office should be all 'Ugly Betty', right?" Yes, just like at Mode.