Revenge is best served cold

I do try to not blog too much about work. But today was too sweet to resist making some mention of it.

This time last year when I took a different job in which I no longer managed and enormous staff employees, there was a manager who I worked alongside - she managed an entirely different group. She was very nice to me when I first started there (she's been with the company several years). But I soon realized she was very insecure and tactless. S he used to try to get me to reveal my salary to her, which is tacky but what made it even worse is she tried to manipulate our friendship (which was lukewarm at best) to get me to tell her. "C'mon help me out - I just need to know if what they are paying me is fair." Well, I told her how to find out if her salary was fair and left it at that. As time went on, I found her to be a vicious gossip and a remarkable cheapskate (she regifted our boss' Christmas present). Well, once I made the transition to my new role, she viewed it as a demotion for me. She treated me like I was a big nothing, flounced around the office like she was a queen, asked me if my lack of status "bothered" me. She treated me like I was forced into this because I wasn't good at what I did before. The fact is, it was a lateral move but would be a high profile change for me. That can be good or bad depending on how well you work.

Not long into my new role I realized just how high profile this change was. My exposure to officers of the company and being in the drivers seat for how we will operate a significant portion of our business turned what seemed like a non-event to a moon-shot career wise. As my new job has evolved, her performance in her job (along with portions of my old job that she acquired - they split my old job into three parts) is under major scrutiny. It turns out that she's one of those people at work who have absolutely no idea what's going on, has not the humility to admit she doesn't understand something and is looking every day like a floundering idiot.

My new role requires me to start dividing tasks among the managers so they can learn all about it and become "subject matter experts" on that area. I informed my boss that I though this manager is a complete flakenut and would screw up whatever she touched. They insisted she get involved and so I threw her to the wolves today.

She freaked out, when I backed out of a meeting (legitimately) at the last second so she had to lead it herself. She freaked out and tried to get help from my old boss but I happened to be there and the vain despot she is refused to ask for help in front of me. But I knew that's why she zoomed into our old boss' office - she was in a panic because she'd be running the meeting. She didn't do abysmally badly, but had absolutely nothing to contribute and it was obvious. She has no idea how to lead this effort, obviously doesn't understand the issues and let everyone else drive the course of the meeting. She never had control of it at all. It was hilarious, she looked, frankly, stupid.

I have no idea if she's a moron or not, she may be able to rise to the challenge eventually. But now she probably has a new respect for what it takes to do what I do as a mere daily task.

In other news, I made the most kick ass chocolate dipped strawberries tonight.

So, I'm off to work first thing in the morning tomorrow. I have a huge report due. I've worked on it all afternoon and night but it's still not done. So I'm going to get everything all sorted tonight and try to be at work before 7.

Oh weekend, hurry home!