Questionable Colleague

[locus_ofcontro]

One of my co-worker/friends was off last week.
I felt more comfortable in my job and capable while she was gone.

She is back today. And it causes me stress.

She is under the gun/radar with work, and has been talking with me about it. It makes me worry for my OWN job when she is talking about the things she's being disciplined for.

I'm just as far behind in recordings, my desk gets "messy"too.

We have different supervisors, so I do not know if that's part of the issue but I do know that 'being a friend' and letting her vent to me, makes me nauseated.

Not sure how I'm gonna manage this new awareness.

I do know that her boss immediately went to see her, after I commented that I was helping her with something. All it was, was changing the formatting of a document, but I got worried that she'd get in trouble for me lending her a hand. I totally do not know what the deal is.

But it's got me edgy enough that I'm planning to work from home a bit on Saturday to catch up some recordings.

I don't like this feeling.

Comments

[the-emi.livejournal.com]

*hugs lots*

[utsi.livejournal.com]

is it possible to set some boundaries with her? things liek 'sorry, i'd love to commiserate right now. but if i don't get x done i'll feel worse. i'm sure you understand' or perhaps 'i've really got a tight dealine on what i'm working on. could i chat with you later?'

i'm thinking things that slowly establish that you are trying to deal with the crap at work and whining about it is not what you want to do (at least with her). establishing positive subjects and non work related talk might help ease the tension she creates?

i totally grok the work needing to be done tension. :P i can't do mine from home though. which is liekly a good and bad thing. *hugs*