Just wanted to vent
I work for a company that is pretty awesome. No complaints there. Recently my bosses hired someone to do an art installation in the entryway. They had a meeting with her, cemented a payment plan, time scale, boundaries about entering the work space, etc… Since then, she has changed the time scale multiple times, crossed work space boundaries multiple times, gotten into verbal altercations with employees, etc…The owners have had to have THREE more meetings with a 40yo woman as to what is appropriate behavior during office hours, while we and she are working in our space. She comes into our space, demands our mental, emotional, and physical labor, as she blathers on about how she, as a middle aged, nepo baby, who doesn’t have to work, is so overwhelmed and incapable of working bc her mom was a narcissist. (B!+ch, join the club 🙄). She’s doing work for our bosses but we are the ones who have to wait on her for 3-4hrs, multiple times a week, for the past few months. And not ONCE has she offered to tip us. Not ONCE. She drinks at least 6 beers and eats a meal, 4 days a week, for 2 months, And, she usually drinks for 2 hrs and works for 1-2 hrs, per day, if we’re lucky. She also comes in many days of the week, doesn’t work, stares at the wall, calls it work, drinks for free, and doesn’t tip the staff. This has gone on for over 2mo. I am so done. I can’t even list all of the narcissistic, manipulative, random things that she has said to us bc it would take me hours. Thankfully, (unfortunately), I have experience with narcissists and so do my coworkers and bosses. She has an end date for her art piece and none of us want her to come back. We plan to 86 her when she’s done. The most frustrating thing about all of this is that I have the BEST bosses and work family. Most of us have worked together for 10yrs+. We are a caring and loving group of people. She saw that in us and IMMEDIATELY took advantage. I’m so thankful that we all saw it quickly and we are showing her out.
It’s scary and intimidating. Two of my coworkers said that their initial feeling around her were that they felt “unsafe”. We’re so thankful that she’ll be done and gone soon.