THE DAILY ASTORIAN • MONDAY, APRIL 24, 2017
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TOMORROW’S HOROSCOPE
Troublesome co-worker
Dear Annie: I’m having for us to do our jobs. If I go
issues with my co-worker. to the break room, the smok-
I am maybe three or four ing area or the bathroom at
years older than she is. This the same time she does, she
is her first job, but she has will straight up book it out
been here for two or three of there, not looking at me,
years. I have had
not speaking to me.
DEAR
many jobs previ-
I have no idea why!
ously, and I have
She calls our
ANNIE
been here for about
supervisor to com-
a year now. She is
plain about me.
a woman who has
Now I am careful
that “anything you
about what I say and
can do I can do bet-
how I say it. I am
always nice to her
ter” attitude toward
and friendly. She
men and does the
Lane
has called manag-
hardest jobs to prove Annie
Creators
Syndicate Inc.
ers, in front of me,
herself.
to ask them to tell
For the past sev-
eral months, she has been me to do a task that I clearly
actively avoiding me. It was about to do already.
started when she would I’ve told her a few times
come up to others near me that she could just radio me
and invite them to parties instead of going through
and just ignore that I was the extra step of having the
there — consistently exclud- supervisor tell me. She says
ing me from these talks. It’s she will talk to me directly
not that bad to be excluded; next time. An hour later, I
we don’t have to be friends. get a call to the office, and
But it’s more than that the managers say she came
now. I can’t remember the in to complain about my
last time she spoke to me, “confronting” her. It’s in no
even when communication way a confrontation. I wish
between us has been crucial they would call us both up
so we could talk it out in the
office.
I don’t know why she
is doing stuff like this to
me. Every time I try to talk
to her, she gives me a curt
answer and takes off. Noth-
ing gets done, and this try-
ing to get me in trouble
thing she’s on now is ridicu-
lous. One of my supervisors
gets it, and I know he knows
this is happening. The other,
I think, may be more on her
side. I am going to leave this
job soon for other reasons,
but any advice on what I can
do here? — What Did I Do?
Dear
WDID:
This
woman can point her finger
only so many times before
the higher-ups notice that
the rest of her fingers are
pointed back at herself. You
might speak to the human
resources department and
ask for some mediation
and guidance. But if you’re
leaving soon anyway, keep
your head down and work
hard. Ignore her antics.
And give a professional but
frank assessment of her in
your exit interview.
5A
By Holiday Mathis, Creators Syndicate Inc.
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3, 38 and 41.