Sure..just dig into the lunch I stayed up all night making

Tell me if you just don't think this is odd.

I was sitting at my desk, having my lunch - yummy veggies, baked pork chops (they say eating the pig won't give you the piggy flu), some green, leafy stuff stir fried with corn, tomatoes, green peppers and garlic. Smelled good. Looked good. My boss comes to my desk and spies my cordon bleu masterpiece and asks if I cooked it, to which I replied, yes.

"So you don't share your lunch?"

I thought perhaps she was joking so I continued eating, but she was serious. Asked me if when I pack my lunch if I don't keep them (my team) in mind. Ummm...noooo. I don't. Am I a fucking caterer? Do you know how much of a sacrifice it is to stay up an extra hour to pack a lunch, so I avoid eating bacteria-infested food court meals? Am I willing to make such a sacrifice for co-workers, when they can cook for themselves? No. Am I willing to adda picnic basket to my daily bundles? No. Am I willing to start taking orders for the next day's meals in case someone is allergic to string beans? No.

I dunno - I am all about team and stuff and being this happy little office family, but having you dig into my lunch bowl with me, with your fork, or maybe my fork...I am not sure how far she was willing to take this, when I barely know these people, is a bit over the top. Wasn't giving away my yogurt and my much desired pear last week enough? When will these people get that at the office, I am professionally pleasant but personally anti-social?

Pain in the ...

I think I may be one of those bosses that employees would hate. I dunno, but I guess I expect people to be industrious and do what they're being paid to do. I don't expect everyone to get to work the time I do, or leave when I do, or eat lunch in 5 minutes to get back to work as quickly as possible. But I do expect that if you are responsible for a project that you seize ownership of it and do it and not gripe about it. Or take a sick day to avoid it. Or expect a reward to do it.

I work with these kinds of people. They shall remain nameless and I know I said I was not going todo this but it is grinding me. It is grinding me cause my boss keeps telling them they're awesome when I don't think they're awesome. I find them lazy and very rude. And when they do one thing, it's almost as though that one thing made up the week's quota of work. So earlier this week, Dude spent a total of 30minutes helping me with something. He got an awesome "congrats" from the boss for it and following the wave of praise, he said he wanted a day off. She reminded him that he had a project that needed to be done today, for me, but since he got all this glorious praise, he felt entitled to a day off, so guess where he was today? Not at work doing the project, lemme tell you. Guess who was the ass to start it, despite knowing better, but did it anyway cause it is HER large project that would be affected if it were not done? You guessed Tamale? Take some praise.

So he takes a day off thinking I would do the entire thing and he would come next week and sit on his ass. I did less than 25% and left the rest there after my back started throbbing. Idid not...I repeat...did NOT kill the Pope in a past life.

Dudette now - rude motherfrigger. I avoid asking her for anything cause she is extremely surly, but after she got the talk earlier this week, I said I would make the effort to not be so evasive. So I tell her I need some help with same said project Dude stayed home to avoid. I go in and start on it and 45 mins pass and I am still there alone. No problem...I rally on. She comes in and sits down and looks at me. I tell her I need some labels printed. She prints them. Disappears. Returns 20 mins later. I tell her make a couple packages for me. She makes them. Disappears.I do 98% of the work on my own, and the steam was coming out of my ears and off my back. I was lucky to get her 2% and will now tell you how I managed to accomplish this. Cause she told me she would only help if I got her lunch. Yes, her doing work she is being paid to do, hinged on me getting her lunch. You better believe she is still waiting for that fucking lunch!

I really hate laziness at work. It sends my blood hot.My boss encourages them though - and they know they can get away with things - sitting on Facebook all day and taking forever to do one little thing. It's not my style. I dunno...I guess I either adjust or attack.