"Nosy Bodies"

From time to time, everyone is guilty of sticking his nose into places where it doesn't belong or isn't welcome. There is no shame in admitting you've done it. In fact there is probably more shame in NOT admitting it because that's a flat out untruth.

As someone who has been a nosy body, I admit that there are times when you just have to accept someone else's nosiness and shrug it off. Many times I believe people are nosy out of interest, not maliciousness. Maybe someone hears a portion of a conversation and just injects a comment or thought and moves on. That's sometimes irritating to the parties involved in the conversation, but not that big of a deal.

BUT when someone is CONSTANTLY butting in to your business...that's a completely different story.

For example, I work with a person who likes to believe she is my superior. Not so. When I first started working here (which was only a few weeks ago), she told me how she was instructed to give me all this information on procedures and, for lack of my own better terminology, chain of command. Her version of the chain is that she is above me. I'll leave out the tedious details of everything she has tried to push off on me and get to the good stuff and the point of this particular rant...

She is now going in and doing a search on EVERY DOCUMENT I CREATE and reading it and trying to figure out whether she should have credit for it. I have even found instances where she has altered things in some fashion and put her name on them. Now, if these were situations where she was told to do these things or make corrections or whatever, fine. No problem. BUT THAT ISN'T THE CASE.

Oh, did I mention she listens in on coversations - purposely - and then gets involved in some fashion, tries to take over and then screws things up??? And the best part??? After screwing things up, she passes the buck on to someone else and can't ever seem to remember having anything to do with it. She'll just look at you with this "sweet" and completely "blank" stare and tell you point blank she didn't have anything to do with the topic.

I suppose I could go confront her, but if I do that before I cool off, I'll make her cry. So, I'm using this as my release...we'll see how things go...