Jun 10th, 2006, 09:34 PM
I'm a whiny e/n homogay in dire need of your attention!
Some of you might remember when I talked about a girl who was uncomfortable with how "friendly" a coworker was being.
Well, I thought I was becoming friends with her. We'd talk a lot and get along pretty well. As far as I know, no problems.
Then out of the blue, she stops talking to me.
I was working one day, and she came in to visit a guy friend of hers, who is also an assistant manager (same as her). Walks past me without even a "hello," and proceeds to stay in the store for three hours without saying a single word to me.
I, in turn, say nothing to her. Partly out of a "well fuck you too" mindset, and partly because she doesn't want to talk to me, why should I go out of my way to be friendly and bother her? So yeah, I go about my work while the manager, her, and another employee are all talking for the rest of the night. It's up to me to not only train a new girl, but now to maintain the store.
I come in the next day to get my paycheck and return something I bought. The boss is there, and I ask if the paychecks came in. He said they're in the back and she's in the back, "If you can stand to look at her." So I just decided I'd get my paycheck another time. Maybe I read a bit too much into it, but then the next time I worked with him, he kept trying to bring her up along with comments, but I kept managing to get the conversation moving in another direction each time. Consider it a feeble attempt at keeping the drama at a minimum by not playing into it. But to me, it seems I'm now the jerk who won't talk to her, instead of being the guy she doesn't want to talk to.
Again, maybe I was reading too much into it. But THEN, the schedule was written up for the next 3 weeks, and not one single day do I work with her. Which is amazing since;
a) We're down to three managers.
b) She works evenings and weekends.
c) I work evenings and weekends.
d) Before all this happened, I was working on nights with her fairly often.
Our schedules are still the same, so it seemed fairly deliberate that we were not scheduled together.
Then she comes in AGAIN on a day I'm not working to see someone else. AGAIN, walks past me and doesn't say a work. I go off and do some work in the aisles while two other girls from work come in and they all chat with the other assistant manager for a good chunk of the night. The other two girls said hello to me.
But then the boss switched days, and I worked with her tonight. Not one word said to me. Not a single one. But I DID hear her mutter something about how bored I must be, since I was fixing up the cards and video games that were all messed up, instead of not standing around.
What's more interesting is that now her and Mr. Touchy Feely are all friendly now. The same guy she's complain to me about how creepy he was being. He was basically the messenger between us all night.
And the schedule two weeks from now is up, and I'm scheduled with her all of a sudden. So tonight's going to repeat itself then, I guess.
It should also be noted this isn't the first time this has happened with her and I.
Really, I'm thankful that nobody (aside from the boss) has even so much as commented on the situation to my face, even though I'm sure I'm the butt of a joke now. I'm doing my best not to egg on this crap, and just get along and do my work without causing a problem. But I do know that now I'm the jackass of the store.
I'm no stranger to girls just deciding to be my best friend one day, and then ignore me the next. But at the same time, not once have I ever figured out an answer as to why. Part of me cares, because I don't like being the bad guy, and I want to know what I did wrong so I can stop doing it, and I thought her and I were becoming close, and why should I be the one being treated like shit when I don't even think I did anything. Part of me doesn't care, because why should I give a shit about someone who's going to pull something like this, and why should I invest any concern or worry into a job when it's not worth it, because if I do then I'll feel the need to quit to get away from it.
But yeah, work sure is fun now. I get to be laughed at behind my back, AND I get to feel like shit every night I work.
In other news, a family came in today, and said they remembered me from a previous visit, and thanked me for helping them out, and for being so nice. They said they wished I could rub off on a few other employees there, and my parents should be proud for having a wonderful son.
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It's sure to be an ice breaker.
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