So we're trying out the new coffee machine that the office has on trial, some high-tech Gaggia… I'm watching the hot water trickle out down into my tea cup and one of the reps comments "It might be easier to just use a kettle." I agree, and say, "But that one is corroded inside or something." (And it is--the element on the bottom is metal and all brown and bubbly looking.)
I'm in the kitchen, and she pipes up from her office, "Actually, it's not corroded Phx."
So I call back, "Ok, well it's something inside that makes me not want to use it."
It bugs me. I refrain from snubbing her when she wants to eat lunch with me, I never say anything negative about her directly. Occassionally I'll rip some sarcastic comment because she seems to feed off them. And she says she's the most positive person she knows. But she never says anything nice about anyone. I want to stay removed, neutral and quiet and just do my thing, but she's just asking to be ripped apart everytime she opens her mouth.
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"But that one is corroded or something". Shouldn't your evil coworker have noted that you added a catch all or something which would handle the situation where corroded wasn't the correct word?
Sheesh!
Maybe you need to start quietly spreading some false rumours about her... binging on ice cream or having far too many cats at home.
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Ah yes, there's always ONE like her in every office!
coffee is evil. pure unadulterated evil. in a mug.
evil in a good way.
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