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IT IS I, THE JEZEBEL! ...I swear, I am NOT 12 anymore. Just finished this self portrait I did for work.

Mezla PigDog, on 28 December 2020 - 07:22 PM, said:

Homemade wholegrain bread is delicious, though! And you can pimp it with whatever you like! I've been making my own bread for a while now and I usually use half wholegrain spelt flour and half whatever else I feel like: wheat flour, rye flour, buckwheat flour, then chuck in stuff like walnuts, oats, linseeds, chia seeds, cranberries, goji berries... whatever's at hand (not all at once, of course). It's the best.

Update time: we were supposed to have a last casual anyone-who-wants-can-show-up meetup today. Dude was a no show even though he'd promised to bring the BBQ. Said his car had broken down, which is most likely true. In any case, I didn't get around to talk to him, but did hace a word with the boss.

Now, it's important to know that I am currently doing portraits of the entire staff since I manage our new website and we decided to have a "The Team" area with drawn portraits rather than photos because people felt more comfortable with that. So I'very been hounding everyone for reference pics, dude here included.

So I approached the boss and asked him to ask for a pic from the coworker and explained I'd gotten a call from his wife asking me to not share the car with him in not too friendly terms. Boss immediately went like "Where'd she get your number?!" and "Awkward situation, I'm sorry that happened. I'll ask about the pic for you."

So that's resolved, which was my main issue. I didn't want weird vibes at work.

 amphibian, on 21 December 2020 - 09:36 PM, said:

I'd asked him previously and he'd always say it's totally fine and I'm welcome. But looking back at some stuff he alluded to, his wife does seem to have a big jealousy problem, so while I believe he's still perfectly fine with giving me a ride, I also believe he ain't got the spine to deal with his wife and I'd rather not end up any deeper in this mess. At least I can read on the bus.

 Tsundoku, on 22 December 2020 - 02:24 AM, said:

That was pretty much the reaction of everyone I've told about this. I'm very much looking forward to a very dull Christmas devoid of drama and people.

So this... situation happened earlier today.

As some of you may know, I recently started a new job. I'm the only girl in the new place, but since my humor seems to fit right in, it's been a blast. Now, it takes me an hour one way to get to work and back and I just so happen to have a co-worker who lives nearby and drops off his kids at the school a two-minute-walk away from my place. So our boss was like ""Why don't you two come to work together?" I cautiously asked aforementioned co-worker if that's cool with him, since he's Georgian/Greek/Russian/Anythinginbetween and also since he had the typical completely flat facial expression. He said it's cool and turned out to be quite the happy, talkative chap. He also has exactly two topics of conversation: how much he loves his family and how much he misses Greece. Cool, don't care, my commute time is being cut in half.

Two months of this working just fine I get a call from an unknown number. Enter his Russian wife, who turns out to be an absolute fury, and lectures me AT LENGTH about the UTTER indecency of me, an unmarried woman (she basically implied I'm a whore), sharing a car with a MARRIED MAN with A WIFE and THREE KIDS!!!11 (Yah, no shit, Sherlock, dude had basically no other topic than his kids.) And also about how life without a man is worthless (I KID YOU NOT) and if I had a husband, I would know that.

I'm completely speechless at this point. Like, what in the fucking hell... Cool, you're not cool with your husband sharing a car with a female co-worker. Not my cup of tea, but I guess I get it. But holy shit, the attitude and length of that lecture...

She also very obviously snooped around in his phone to find my number.

Also, I'm now in the fun position to tell both said co-worker AND our boss why I'm taking the bus again from now on. I mean, I don't care all that much, but dude is going to be embarrassed into the fucking ground because in no way will I hide the why from the boss. Maybe not go into the how, but I'm not making excuses for that bitch.

Messing with my groove is mainly that the last thing I wanted at a new job was this kind of drama.

Thanks you to everyone who said something on the previous page