I'd be very very tempted to blow it all out into the open.
Yeah, but it's all really minor. It takes years of exposure to realize what she's doing.
For instance, I asked her today about the status of a project, and she admitted that she was in contact with X agency. I asked who was our point of contact there, and her response was "I will be working with Jeff and Lucy".
Notice the pronoun--even though I'm the program manager, I'm not a participant in her coordination with external agencies. She's marking her territory.
Which means I will be forced to reply, "That's great! Please cc me on your correspondence with them so we'll all be up to speed on what's going on." This makes me look like a bitch (because of course she'd cc me! Even though she never ever does) and a micro-manager.
Regardless, she won't cc me on her conversations with other agencies. I never know what she's doing, if anything, and that's on purpose. If nobody knows what she's doing, she can say whatever she likes about the status of her work and nobody can question it.
Oh Amy, I'm so sorry. Lots of thoughts and prayers headed out to your family.
And {{Amy}}. I'm so sorry.
Amy, much love going out to you and your family. I'm so sorry.
In stupid work news, I hadn't heard back from someone who's notorious for not getting back, so I got a wee bit snippy in my email, and....she wrote back that she had been out of the office because her husband had emergency surgery. Oops.
Thanks, everyone.
I think the weirdest thing for me was that I had just written "Mimi!" on my to-do list for the day when my mom called (as in I was planning to go sit with her for a while -- she hadn't been alert enough to speak or acknowledge anyone for days). And then as I was leaving the nursing home, "Welcome to the Black Parade" had just started.
The staff there are just incredible, though. Mimi was there seven years, and so many of the staff have been with her the whole time, and loved her like one of their own family.
Consuela, how absolutely atrocious. I don't even know what to say.
That's wonderful, Amy, to have had that for her.
