Nikki (ngreen1974) Starts A Diary

[alottolose]

Nikki Nikki I volunteer to be your secretary!! .... (or I would if I was closer damnit )

Morning babes - hope you feel at least a little better today food poisoning sucks....well it doesn't it BLOWS but y'know what I mean....

Any idea whatdunnit?...

Rest up hun and forget about the chores...they'll take you twice as long as they would ordinarily....so wait til you're better and you'll get them done quicker than you could now like my logic?........REST!

xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

 

[LVLLM]

morning

 

[jaqys]

Awww sorry about the food poisening.

And Sarah thats just so weird. I really am so crap at the office politics, I'd never be the one someone colluded with.

 

[alottolose]

Isn't it Jaqys?...I've had some rough experiences with office politics...I used to walk around naively thinking that most people were nice...lesson now learnt the hard way <sigh>

I'm just too soft that's my trouble x

 

[m-mouse]

Just made my cookie recipe as a savoury - adding pepper and a bit more water so it was runnier. Cooked in a silicon muffin tin for a bit longer - proably half an hour - and hey presto crispy oatcakes, ready to be spread with a little philly extra light!

 

[Maintainer]

oh no Nikki - hope you feel better soon!
Sarah - that must have been a really awkward period... my situation here isn't great but I (try to) rise above it all which in fact means that I'm civil to one of my officemates and don't speak to the other at all! Easiest way all round! Pathetic really!

 

[alottolose]

Sarah - that must have been a really awkward period... my situation here isn't great but I (try to) rise above it all which in fact means that I'm civil to one of my officemates and don't speak to the other at all! Easiest way all round! Pathetic really!

It wasn't awkward I just used to sit imagining holding her head on the photocopier whilst slamming the lid on it repeatedly ....ahh those were the days:sigh:

I absolutely hated her:cry:...with a passion - she was a nasty, 2 faced, duplicitous witch

 

[LVLLM]

oh sarah. hope you had a voodoo doll

 

[Maintainer]

Oh no! My officemate probably says the same about me. Three weeks ago, she sent me a nasty email accusing me of having said I'd done something the previous day I never said... (ie she misheard/misunderstood what I'd said).

Basically, in September, each of us requested last minute days off one week pursuant to which I asked her whether she'd sent an email notifying [X] in HR of her absence. She asked why she would. I responded that [X] is the one who keeps track of how many days off we've taken. I added that I had emailed her.

I can see where the misunderstanding came from, but the cold nasty email I received from her the following day asking me for a copy of my email ABOUT HER to [X] in HR (non existant of course) left me no doubt of her feelings towards me.

I tried in vain to explain what I had in fact said to her the previous day, but she wouldn't listen. I sent her the email I sent HR (about MY day off). Silence. I told her to ask HR for the supposed email then. Don't know whether she has tried.

And I went to this person's wedding AND she's ENGLISH!


My other officemate is the previous secretary of one of my bosses who asked to change from her... she hates him and keeps going on and on that I shouldn't turn my back on him, etc etc.

 

[LVLLM]

oh both stories are terrible. Jo she seems like a hormonal silly witch!!! fancy emailing you and not asking aswell.

 

[jet1968]

Well basically I'd just started a new job (it was a permanant position)...the girl who was doing the job temping before I was in it got kept on for an overlap (although this ended up being an extended overlap as they thought we needed many hands).....she was always really off-ish with me (although in front of MY manager she was all smiles...snidey cow!!)

so between her and the office manager (not my manager - I was posted in their outreach office)
The office manager who ALWAYS went past me to the temp girl and ignored me totally even though I was due to be the only long-term postholder....

one day I came in after a month of my being there (and getting used to where everything was)

And between them they'd moved everything!! everything!!

I was fuming... I made my mind up then I was going to leave....

I'd gotten sick of being ignored when it came to information exchanges, the temp being reluctant to tell me anything I needed to know... even though her role was to in effect handover the role to me....

the manager ignoring me and generally being treated like sh*te....

there is the story

<sorry it still strikes a raw nerve>

nasty cow and nasty manager !!!!!!!! people can treat other's like *****!!!!!!!!!!

 

[jet1968]

hey nikki i totally never knew i was in ur diary !!!

hi lovey hope ur ok !!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[m-mouse]

Nicki Nicki where are you? Are you feeling any better?

 

[ngreen1974]

Hey Mouse, I'm back in the land of the living. I dont recommend food poisoning as a form of weighloss at all!! I now also have a very expensive shop being delivered as I had to empty the freezer! Gutted.

Sarah, I cant believe you worked with someone so hideous. You're definitely better off out of it. I'm afraid I'm more like Jo and my mouth tends to engage before my brain in those situations. It's a miracle I've never been fired. One of my managers once came to work with 'the hump' and proceeded to take it out on me all morning, so at lunch time I went in to his office and told him I wouldnt be working for him that afternoon until he went away and thought about how he had been treating me and then apoligised to me. Sure enough 20 minutes later I got my apology and he bought me lunch!

Jo, in your situation I would have been tempted to add fuel to the fire and not tell her that the email you sent to HR was not what she thought it was. I'm evil like that.

Dukan porridge has just given me my fuel for today as I now have to go and tackle all the ebay items that sold. This is the annoying bit. Packaging them up, doing the labels and then going to the post office and waiting in line for half an hour Grrrr

I'm waiting for Millie's single mattress to arrive from John Lewis either today or tomorrow (at the latest). Let's see if it turns into a farce!

I'm having a real mind struggle today re: bread! It started when I was sick and I can't shake it. I just want a sandwich, and a cheese one at that. It's strange because without the forum I would have eaten the sandwich by now and then dealt with the consequences after, but having you lot going through the same thing really does stop me in my tracks and and makes me really think about what it is that I'm going to do re: food.

Oh my word, Enrique Englasias (no idea of spelling) is on This Morning and they just showed his new song. Phoar! I've never found him attractive before but HELLO! That's just cheered me up no end.

Off to package up ebay stuff now, so have a great day my fellow Dukaneers.

xxx

 

[m-mouse]

Hey Mouse, I'm back in the land of the living. I dont recommend food poisoning as a form of weighloss at all!! I now also have a very expensive shop being delivered as I had to empty the freezer! Gutted.

Sarah, I cant believe you worked with someone so hideous. You're definitely better off out of it. I'm afraid I'm more like Jo and my mouth tends to engage before my brain in those situations. It's a miracle I've never been fired. One of my managers once came to work with 'the hump' and proceeded to take it out on me all morning, so at lunch time I went in to his office and told him I wouldnt be working for him that afternoon until he went away and thought about how he had been treating me and then apoligised to me. Sure enough 20 minutes later I got my apology and he bought me lunch!

Jo, in your situation I would have been tempted to add fuel to the fire and not tell her that the email you sent to HR was not what she thought it was. I'm evil like that.

Dukan porridge has just given me my fuel for today as I now have to go and tackle all the ebay items that sold. This is the annoying bit. Packaging them up, doing the labels and then going to the post office and waiting in line for half an hour Grrrr

I'm waiting for Millie's single mattress to arrive from John Lewis either today or tomorrow (at the latest). Let's see if it turns into a farce!

I'm having a real mind struggle today re: bread! It started when I was sick and I can't shake it. I just want a sandwich, and a cheese one at that. It's strange because without the forum I would have eaten the sandwich by now and then dealt with the consequences after, but having you lot going through the same thing really does stop me in my tracks and and makes me really think about what it is that I'm going to do re: food.

Oh my word, Enrique Englasias (no idea of spelling) is on This Morning and they just showed his new song. Phoar! I've never found him attractive before but HELLO! That's just cheered me up no end.

Off to package up ebay stuff now, so have a great day my fellow Dukaneers.

xxx

Glad you're back in the land of the living!! I had a real craving for a cheese sandwich a couple of weeks ago but didn't give in. Then last week I had a piece of cheese - I think I was a bit fed up with other peoples stories of cheating and still losing. Anyway I had my chunk of cheese - and didn't really enjoy it - a lesson to myself I think.

 

[m-mouse]

I am having another go at some dukan 'bread' - I have a bagel in the oven!! Watch this space.

 

[ngreen1974]

Do you know Mouse, that is EXACTLY what I was thinking. I bet I'd make the damn sandwich and lavish it with love and then when it comes to eating it it'll just be a big fat let down! OK I'll see if I can make it to tomorrow's weigh in without having one. God forbid if I dont lose anything this week as I think it will be my consolation prize!

x

 

[m-mouse]

Do you know Mouse, that is EXACTLY what I was thinking. I bet I'd make the damn sandwich and lavish it with love and then when it comes to eating it it'll just be a big fat let down! OK I'll see if I can make it to tomorrow's weigh in without having one. God forbid if I dont lose anything this week as I think it will be my consolation prize!

x

Weigh in and if you haven't lost go back to bed and only get up when you're ready to wee a pound or two You would kind of hope that dodgy belly = a loss.

And don't go for the cheese sarnie; if you get desperate make some dukan bread and slice a babybel up. I made some eggy muffin type things this morning with egg, cottage cheese and smoked mackerel and they actually tasted remarkably cheesy, especially considering the taste of uncooked cottage cheese

 

[jaqys]

You so dont want that bloaty carby bread really

Though of course being ill makes you crave some comfort food.
Once your tum is totally settled your head will be easier to manage.

You are so brave speaking up at work, I just sulk and quit.

 

[Maintainer]

I was going to post the same... make some dukan bread!! And you could even toast it and have a hot toasty!

At the time I forwarded to her the email I'd sent I still naively thought we'd laugh it off and move on. Now, since I've been accused of it, and also in her nasty email to me she said I was "policing" her, I might as well send emails regularly with her arrival time, and length of lunch hour! I could police her (and others!!) if I put my mind to it, grrrr!

Are you a secretary too, Nikki?

You know you said you had to empty the freezer (I presume because of your food poisoning issues), is there a reason why you think perhaps the issue came from there? Just wondering cos I had an electricity issue in the country not that long back and I chose not to dump the entire contents of TWO freezers (and we've eaten plenty out of it since, and are still here to tell the tale). 12 more hours off and I'd have had to.