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If my day was any better, I might actually be angry. As it is, I'm so far beyond furious I don't think there's a word in the English language to describe how I'm feeling.
It's bad enough to have your co-workers talking about you and making up rumors. Okay, I realize it looks bad on my part for being friendly with the Brits. I can't help that they find me attractive and are constantly trying to pick me up. It's not like I'm encouraging them. But to talk about me like I'm a slacker who only goes around the base to pick up soldiers? Excuse me? I work just as hard as everyone else, if not harder than most. And to accuse me of joy riding around the base? When? There are tons of other people who do that - I don't. When I go out, it's to work. Yeah, okay, I may take the longer route back to the office, but by longer, it's only two or three minutes. There are other guys who drive down to the base's town to check out the officers' wives. They're gone for a couple hours at a time and no one says anything about that? How the hell does that work?
But what's even worse is that my boss has joined in on the talk. In fact, I have a sneaking suspicion he's starting a lot of this. He seems to be really bitter about the fact that the other intern and I actually have fun at work. We think it's hilarious that the Brits are so obvious about trying to pick us up. I mean, in the past couple days alone, I've heard cat calls, I've had a guy yell "Are you looking for me?" and a bunch of other stuff. It's funny 'cause it's so lame. And yes, we talk about their lame attempts when we get back into the office. So sue us. We're two young women admist over 2000 soldiers who are only slightly older than we are. What are we expected to do?
And to make a wonderful day even more fabulous, we're getting yelled at for not completing a project fast enough. But it's not our fault since the instructions given to us don't correlate to what we're finding. So, we're wasting huge amounts of time trying to figure out what we're doing wrong, when really, it's our instructions that aren't clear. We tried to get clarification today, only to find that our instructions are now totally different from what we were told originally. When we went to speak with the next person in command, we were given, again, another totally different set of instructions. So, what're they expecting from us? To be mind-readers? I'm a student. I'm not qualified to make judgments like that on my own, without specific permission by the guys above me. Too bad they're idiots.
Oh and then there was the guy I share an office with. He was making all sorts of rude comments today. Well, actually, he's always being a complete ass, but he knew I was upset today and he was purposely trying to push me over the edge. The stupid thing is that this guy is in his early 50's. One would think he'd be far more mature than he's been demonstrating. Apparently not. A couple weeks, he accused me and the other intern of losing one of his pieces of equipment, but in reality, he had actually taken it off my desk and hid it in one of his drawers. We weren't stupid - we knew immediately that he had it, but he wouldn't admit it to us until we pretended to panic and nearly called the cops. Yeah, we had to pretend we were going to call the cops before he would admit that he actually took the equipment just to teach us a lesson about responsibility. That asshole! I should've charged him with harassment right then and there. And then yesterday, he accused us of breaking one of his tape measurers. Oh, except that it'd been long since broken before either of us actually used it. There was also the incident several weeks back when we asked him to borrow some GPS equipment, but he told us he didn't have any, which was a complete lie since we've seen him using it on a number of occassions. At any rate, today, after having been feeling like shit all morning, I was working on a project that needed me to highlight some roads on a map. This map has to go out to contractors, so I have to do a good job (i.e. stay in the lines). I was joking and said, "Maybe I should drop out of engineering and go into art." This guy stops everything he's doing and gives me this diry look before saying, "You don't have to be here if you don't want to." It took me a long moment before I realized that he was telling me to leave. You have no idea how completely taken aback I was. I knew this guy was an ass, but to say something like that. If he ever pulls any of his shit on me again, I swear I'm gonna start screaming harassment left, right and center. If I have to get him fired, I will, even if it ruins my reputation and brings hell to the base. If these jersk in my department want to start something, they'll find they've got another thing coming. I've only been here two months, but I won't take their shit.
Fuck! I'm still so pissed. Hopefully the day'll end off on a better note. I'm gonna find some of the soldiers and go drinking with them tonight. Maybe it'll be even better than Friday night. That'll make a crappy day end off better... ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's bad enough to have your co-workers talking about you and making up rumors. Okay, I realize it looks bad on my part for being friendly with the Brits. I can't help that they find me attractive and are constantly trying to pick me up. It's not like I'm encouraging them. But to talk about me like I'm a slacker who only goes around the base to pick up soldiers? Excuse me? I work just as hard as everyone else, if not harder than most. And to accuse me of joy riding around the base? When? There are tons of other people who do that - I don't. When I go out, it's to work. Yeah, okay, I may take the longer route back to the office, but by longer, it's only two or three minutes. There are other guys who drive down to the base's town to check out the officers' wives. They're gone for a couple hours at a time and no one says anything about that? How the hell does that work?
But what's even worse is that my boss has joined in on the talk. In fact, I have a sneaking suspicion he's starting a lot of this. He seems to be really bitter about the fact that the other intern and I actually have fun at work. We think it's hilarious that the Brits are so obvious about trying to pick us up. I mean, in the past couple days alone, I've heard cat calls, I've had a guy yell "Are you looking for me?" and a bunch of other stuff. It's funny 'cause it's so lame. And yes, we talk about their lame attempts when we get back into the office. So sue us. We're two young women admist over 2000 soldiers who are only slightly older than we are. What are we expected to do?
And to make a wonderful day even more fabulous, we're getting yelled at for not completing a project fast enough. But it's not our fault since the instructions given to us don't correlate to what we're finding. So, we're wasting huge amounts of time trying to figure out what we're doing wrong, when really, it's our instructions that aren't clear. We tried to get clarification today, only to find that our instructions are now totally different from what we were told originally. When we went to speak with the next person in command, we were given, again, another totally different set of instructions. So, what're they expecting from us? To be mind-readers? I'm a student. I'm not qualified to make judgments like that on my own, without specific permission by the guys above me. Too bad they're idiots.
Oh and then there was the guy I share an office with. He was making all sorts of rude comments today. Well, actually, he's always being a complete ass, but he knew I was upset today and he was purposely trying to push me over the edge. The stupid thing is that this guy is in his early 50's. One would think he'd be far more mature than he's been demonstrating. Apparently not. A couple weeks, he accused me and the other intern of losing one of his pieces of equipment, but in reality, he had actually taken it off my desk and hid it in one of his drawers. We weren't stupid - we knew immediately that he had it, but he wouldn't admit it to us until we pretended to panic and nearly called the cops. Yeah, we had to pretend we were going to call the cops before he would admit that he actually took the equipment just to teach us a lesson about responsibility. That asshole! I should've charged him with harassment right then and there. And then yesterday, he accused us of breaking one of his tape measurers. Oh, except that it'd been long since broken before either of us actually used it. There was also the incident several weeks back when we asked him to borrow some GPS equipment, but he told us he didn't have any, which was a complete lie since we've seen him using it on a number of occassions. At any rate, today, after having been feeling like shit all morning, I was working on a project that needed me to highlight some roads on a map. This map has to go out to contractors, so I have to do a good job (i.e. stay in the lines). I was joking and said, "Maybe I should drop out of engineering and go into art." This guy stops everything he's doing and gives me this diry look before saying, "You don't have to be here if you don't want to." It took me a long moment before I realized that he was telling me to leave. You have no idea how completely taken aback I was. I knew this guy was an ass, but to say something like that. If he ever pulls any of his shit on me again, I swear I'm gonna start screaming harassment left, right and center. If I have to get him fired, I will, even if it ruins my reputation and brings hell to the base. If these jersk in my department want to start something, they'll find they've got another thing coming. I've only been here two months, but I won't take their shit.
Fuck! I'm still so pissed. Hopefully the day'll end off on a better note. I'm gonna find some of the soldiers and go drinking with them tonight. Maybe it'll be even better than Friday night. That'll make a crappy day end off better... ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!