So, with this other more senior colleague, I wrote a very diplomatic, professional, and polished separate email telling her that I will continue to lead the strategy and decisions, and the agency partner will support. I told her I will inform her when anything is of high priority. I set the record straight, and I basically told her to stay in her lane. She did not respond, even though I offfered further collaboration to strengthen our partnership or process.

How rude and how utterly toxic of her!!! She couldn;t acknowledge my expertise OR my authority, and instead chose to ignore my email altogether, even though the subject heading indicated I wanted her alignment. What a total biatch.

So I have TWO totally biatchy women I am dealing with, who are both senior to me and who are both highly toxic.

I knew something was wrong with her when I received her awful peer review. I just knew it. She threw me under the bus! And now, she's refusing to acknowledge my position and authority as the in-house expert, while our agency is hired to support me? And instead, she went to the agency for their expertise, when she should have addressed her questions to me, being the company's internal senior manager? WOW. Just WOW.

I am seriously FLOORED by how absolutely horrid people's behavior can be!

I will NOT let her toxicity effect my confidence! She has no bearing on my work, and she is not even a stakeholder. She manages the website updates that I send to her team. She has nothing to do with strategy, and nothing to gain by asking how we can rank higher for a certain keyword.

I am really taken aback....

My company has a STRICT "no retaliation" policy when an employee reports bad behavior to HR, including anyone I interact with. No one is allowed to retaliate in response to my report regarding my boss bullying me.

I think I will report this woman's behavior as potentially retaliatory, because she is friends with my boss and since her behavior is drastically different than how she has recently been interacting with me.

OYE!