Re: Bruised Ego at Work

Of course you are pissed, I would be too. Here you were working your butt off and in comes the real princess of the office and completely usurps everything.

I too worked in a very small office and one of the ladies there was the favorite. She got many things the others few women didn't get. It was a full on pecking order, unspoken and obvious. Anyone new coming in that tries to upset the apple cart is summarily dismissed, and I don't always mean fired.

It's one of those incredibly unfair things that you just have to get over.

Most men don't understand the feelings of women at work. Everything is very black and white for them. Women get it, and even if they say they don't let the little things get to them, most of them are lying.

I hate like hell to say this and I will. Definitely, be happy you have a job. In this market that's amazing. At your age (sorry but that is fact) that's good too. When it gets better you can look for a new job, or you can just accept that the pecking order is there and there is nada you can do about it.

Collect your paycheck and try to put it behind you. Pretend that the parking thing was just a temporary perk at best so that you can wrap your brain around that and it won't cause you to be bitter. Think how it would have been should you had been the long time employee and then a new young thing comes in and takes you parking place. If that had been so, I would have written something entirely different.

Hang in there kiddo.