Team lead said I’m a toxic cloud
Flair ✨entitled ego✨ added for the main character.
So in short story, the leader of my department asked a passive aggressive question. Of course I replied the answer. After small rifts I then suggested that we needed to update means of communication since yelling at people is considered talking in the work place.
“You are a toxic dark cloud over this work place and you stress me out” they exclaimed.
(Mentally I am throwing soft tomatoes at this person, just know)
For context:
We were friends. I got to watch them degrade everyone around me and say how uneducated everyone was at work. I got to watch how bitter this person became because people preferred to speak to me about issues over their leader. If I speak then my leader is quick to linger and see what I’m talking about. If I leave the department then they follow me around the building. If I go to the bathroom then surprise surprise, there they are.
The last two weeks I have spent head down at my desk and make sure to direct any comments and concerns to the leader. Fool me once is all it takes these days. I have told my friends at work “there is no point in conversation at work” because I do not want them to get in trouble. If I am to direct anyone for their job then I am quick to have a thread going with my actual boss and my leader.
Everyone at my job this specific week has told me that they all feel more comfortable with me. They all say how happy they are to have me at the workplace and wish they had me sooner.
How ironic that only one person believes I’m a toxic cloud.
Anyways, when it’s all said and done I took two days mental health. I’m done with the tomfoolery!! End of rant.