While working at a medical job where I was in an administrative position a co-worker was hired. We seemed to get along fine and chit-chatted amiably while we worked. I noticed though, that she and our boss were developing a super-chummy relationship. They called each other by pet names which was kind of sickening. That fondness never extended to me. Our boss, which up until that time I had a great relationship with. Suddenly, for reasons unknown to me, began being very cold to me and micromanaging my duties where I had always been self-motivated, trusted and very competent in my duties and in need of relatively no supervision. I did not understand the change in her attitude towards me. I began to come home from work devastated and confused and began to hate going to a job that I previously loved.

A time came when that co-worker was needed to cover for an employee on leave at our other office. So, I was enjoying her being out of our office. One day I accidentally overheard a conversation between my boss’s boss and a corporate representative where they discussed coming in that weekend to review patient chart documentation. I knew that my boss routinely was forced to take work (including charts) home in order to keep up with her extensive workload. This, of course, is a big no-no even though I knew that the charts were in safe hands and why she was doing it. I was worried that my boss would get in big trouble if the charts were discovered to be missing. So, even though my boss seemed to hate me, I went to her on my way out the door at the end of the day and told her of the upcoming chart review. She looked at me oddly and didn’t really respond. I went home that evening and all night I fretted about what I had done. I kept telling myself I should not have said anything. I should have minded my own business. I almost made myself physically ill that night.

The next morning, my boss and I arrived in the parking lot at the same time. I went directly to her and started to apologize and tell her that I should not have said anything and that it was not my business. She stopped me in mid-sentence. She said, “You saved my ass. Thank you.” I was dumb struck. She continued, “I have been very misled about you. I have been lied to about you. I am so sorry. ‘Co-worker’ told me that you were spying on me for ‘my boss’. I am so sorry.” I was in shock! Instantly things were set right. I had inadvertently proved to her that not only was I NOT spying on her but just the opposite. Had I been truly spying on her for her boss, I would have let her get caught. Now Co-worker was on the $#!+ list now! Conditions righted themselves immediately. Co-worker never returned to our office. My relationship and interactions with my boss were once again positive. The little liar remained at the other office and was still there when I left the company for an out-of-state move.

I still wonder what Co-worker’s problem with me was. I had never done anything to her to warrant her hatred toward me. I guess it was just a character flaw of some sort.

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