So my friend shared with me her *thoughts* - she is going to try to apply for a job - that she has no business applying for. Ok fine, let her apply and fail... but, she is going to ask for special treatment because of her challenges. Oh boy. Treatment I don't get in that same position.

I feel bad for her and I know she is a good employee but I feel like she has never truly come to terms with her position. She is months out from management entertaining the idea that she was drunk on the job and possibly being fired and now she wants to apply for a job and start demanding special treatment? Absolutely infuriating. I tried to point out all the reasons this isn't a good idea... including the fact that she lives very far from the workplace and so the commute would be a bear on top of a challenging job. (that she was previously fired from).

Not listening.

How do you say to someone that no, they do deserve the place they are in. I have been in the job 20 years and even with an abusive boss I was never so much as written up. But management won't let me have any other position.

She has numerous write ups and was demoted are they really going to let her have another such position that she was demoted from?

I care mostly because she is trying to do an end run around management and go directly to the boss. If she gets it, with the special treatment, I will be royally poed. If she doesn't get it... I think she will be fired or further demoted. Management will not put up with that.

So frustrating.