Another thing that happened this last week, which I hadn’t had time to blog about - I learned from Belle that Jodie wants to fire me. Yeah, that’s kind of a big thing to neglect, but it’s been a stressful week and I wanted to dwell on the good things. But maybe it will turn out to be a good thing after all. Anyway, according to Belle, “she had a meeting with Ned (the director) and complained that you didn’t do any of the work she wanted you to do last week. So they’re gonna write up a review of you over winter break and then try to fire you.”

Ha. Not terribly surprised, considering that I haven’t bothered to pretend to care about her temper tantrums at work for the past three weeks. The thing that pissed me off, though, was not that she wanted to fire me - I’ve decided already that I’m quitting at semester, anyways - but that she brought the director into the whole mess too. Now why the hell does she need to bring him into this, if she is my supervisor? She hired me, she can fire me. She just doesn’t want to take any damn responsibility for anything and wants to make it look like I’m the bad guy.

Also, she’s accusing me of not doing any work? Half the time she’s at work she’s yelling on the phone at someone for a non-work related issue, such as the loan she’s wanting to take out for a house, or some other shit that she wants to buy and thus add to the hoard she’s accumulated in her house. The other half of the time she’s not even here! Whenever she says she’ll be back in an hour, she’ll really be back in three. It’s not just sometimes, either - it happens every single time. So for her to call me lazy is, um, the crayon labelled “effing pitch black” in the frickin’ Crayola box calling the kettle black! It’s also been irritating because she keeps telling me things like “I hope you’ll decide to put up with us next semester,” as if she’s going to keep me around. Uh huh. Why is she even bothering to suck up to a lowly work-study hireling?

Anyway, about her getting served. So far Belle and I have been dubious of the new director, Ned, since he’s never here - it has seemed as though he just takes what she says and doesn’t investigate any further. But today it looks like things will be different, in a totally delicious and karma-riffic way. Apparently Jodie had ordered a new monitor for Ned’s office. Said monitor was 23″ and cost $2000(!). How many normal people working in a dinky office on a university campus would want, or need, a 23″, ridiculously expensive monitor? Not very many. So Ned, when he saw the monstrous thing on his desk, immediately said, “I don’t want it; take it back.”
Jodie, miffed, attempted to take it back to the bookstore, from whence she purchased said monstrosity - and learned that, surprise, you can’t return electronics! Now Jodie is on the rampage; I think she might be threatening to sue the university bookstore for not taking it back (??) It wouldn’t surprise me at all; her usual tendency is to completely overreact in situations that are largely her fault. And Ned is now pissed - I overheard him say to one of the faculty how embarrassing the whole situation was.

Mwahahaha. Oh, Jodie. Please, please, please get fired.