[dandylin]

have been both a life saver and a sanity endangering experience. In October, I started a new job in internet sales. I love to sell stuff. I'm good at selling stuff. I work in an office with only one other person, with my boss 40 miles down the mountain. It is an ideal job. If only...

I work with a woman who has no business working at all. I went into this position in a state of depression and it has helped. She went into this position a couple of days before me and within a week of starting tried to kill herself. A police officer came into my office early in the morning and asked if I had seen her. He then told me that she had an argument with her boyfriend the night before and took off with a bottle of pills and a gun. They found her moments from death. She spent the next 6 days in the hospital. The day after being released she was back at work. A drugged out zombie.

Since then it has been downhill. She refuses to learn the job. I suspect that she has sabotaged her computer a couple of times, so that she didn't have to work with the phones or customers. Did I mention that it was a sales position?

I finally started complaining to my boss and documenting the incidents. Her taking off in the middle of the day, her faking illness so she could take off early for a weekend out of town, her refusal to do anything around the office.

I think she's about to be fired. I hope she's about to be fired. I am blaming her for this current bout of depression. The pressure associated with the sales and my inability to meet my goals because I have to do her job too, and the overall feeling of being a big fat rat fink for documenting her abuses have really done a number on my already tenuous grasp on my emotional health.

So, now I think she knows that I ratted her out. I have to work with her in the morning and until HR does something about her.

A job that I should and do love outside of the crazy stuff going on in my office.

Thanks for reading this silliness. I needed to get it out somewhere.

[CANDC]

Dandylin, sounds like you are expected to be a caregiver too at work. Hope you get some understanding from the boss. Maybe sales reports would speak louder than griping.

I feel sorry for the coworker, but it sounds like she is having trouble coping with work.

If you are like a supervisor to this coworker, maybe you could ask the boss to administer to her so you could focus more on sales. Sounds like communicating to the boss without being a pain is important to maintaining good relations and your job.

[Frankbtl]

Hi dandylin, sounds like she didn't give you a choice other than to document things and report to your boss. You clearly tried to help her but you can't make someone accept help, so maybe this just isn't the job for her for one reason or another??
But really well done on having the strength to stop trying to "carry" her!!! It couldn't have been easy for you
Hopefully she'll either improve if HR addresses it with her or, if she's fired, she'll be able to eventually move onto a job which she can enjoy doing. It just couldn't carry on the way it was, right??!!
And got to say........real credit for you having hung on in there despite what's been going on and still managing to like the work itself!!! Keep it up!!! And hey, don't forget to reach out for support when you need it too, we're here for you

Alison

[dandylin]

Thank you so much friends. I really feel the support and I needed that