work stuff

These are the people:


Ron - used to own the company, sold to John at the 1st of the year. He now gets paid a nice salary as a "consultant". Basically, he doesn't have to come to work if he doesn't want to & still gets paid. (married with adult kids & in his 50's)


John - has worked for Ron for about 9 years. He's my age and just purchased the company for A LOT of money. (just got married in 2006 & is 28)


Jeannie - has worked for the company for a year and almost a 1/2. She was hired when the other girl working there got pregnant again & decided to move closer to her family. Jeannie was 1 of 2 resumes they received and started out at about $7 more an hour than what I make. She got a VERY good deal because they were really desperate to get someone hired & trained before the other girl left. (38)

Ok, eventually Jeannie & I became friends & would hang out together outside of work. She has no friends, 3 ex-husbands, 1 baby daddy and 5 kids. The oldest is 18 the youngest is just 3 months younger than Faith. She has custody of her middle son, the 11 year old.

When Jeannie got her boob job last year I took the day off so I could drive her because she had no one else. I try to be a good friend, she's not what we would call a good friend. However, I was friends with her anyway because not only did she need a friend, so did I.

Jeannie started in Sept and by our Christmas party she was um, flirting with John. Basically she was drunk & kind of gropey. By March they were sleeping together. I didn't know this until I think July but I knew they were having some kind of thing. They did manage to not let this affect work too much.

There was one point that John was going to leave his wife for Jeannie. He actually left & stayed with Jeannie for a couple days. He then went back to his house to get some stuff & his wife essentialy convinced him not to leave (she layed in front of the door bawling, begging him not to leave her. He could do whatever he wanted as long as he didn't leave her.) So, he didn't leave and they kind of continued their thing off & on. There were of course some awkward moments but things were alright. Things have increasingly become less professional. Jeannie is pretty much f'n crazy. Around Christmas time she had herself convinced she was pregnant....she's had her tubes tied/cut/coderized since her son was born 3 1/2 years ago. (there's like a .01% chance that this could even happen). There's all kinds of other crazy shit but I think you kind of get the drift. She has left work & walked home (she lives like 1/2 a block from the office & sometimes walks) on several occasions saying she "can't work like this" etc. Well, John will go after her & get her to come back (if her OR I were to just up & quit it would cause our office some problems) because he really does need her at work. Anyway, more drama blah blah blah.

Feb 19th, Jeannie left for lunch and at about 1:10 I asked where she was. No one knew. I tired to call her & no answer. I sent her a txt msg and she told me "John told me to quit"

They had had a fight earlier & they both had called each other not so nice names. Anyway, by the end of the day they had spoken & Jeannie was coming back on the 20th.

So, come the next morning John called me & asked me to come in early. I got there & Jeannie wasn't there. He said she wasn't coming in & didn't know if she'd be back. I guess they'd had a fight until about 2 am. Here's the thing. Yes, on tuesday they were both very unprofessional at work and were fighting about personal things. Fine. There little fight on tuesday night/wednesday morning was outside of work & should not affect work the next day. Ron & I thought that should be it, she should be done. John gave her another chance. She came to work the next day. However, she was all pissy about everthing. (Now, please note that I have done nothing wrong. I have stayed out of this whole mess......she treats me like crap. Barely speaks to me & when she does she short with me.) So, fast forward to Feb. 29th. There's been a very awkward week of work where things with Jeannie & John bounce back & forth between normal joking & then being pissy, things between her & Ron are somewhat normal in that it's like she pretended nothing happened. Normal joking, talking about whatever. And Jeannie still barely speaks to me. Now, on orders from my boss, I have not been talking to her about any personal stuff, which is what she wanted. Not just from me but she said she didn't want any of her personal life at the office (which she's the one that always volunteers the info anyway).

Ok, so on the 29th John & Jeannie have another fight. Jeannie has started seeing one of our clients. Kind of a large account of John's. She has went on like 2 dates with this guy & she has spilled allllll the crap that has happened with John. He had previously offered her a job as his secretary/office manager at quite a bit more money than she makes now. Basically she would be running his office for his company. He's been doing it all himself but he's growing & needs to hire someone to do it all. So Jeannie's telling all of this to John & that he'll pay her more etc. however she'd have to move to a town about an hour away, which she doesn't want to do. John says, so go work for him. Quit & go work for him if he's going to pay you that (as in, if you have a better offer, take it. Which is what he'd tell me if I was offered a better job too). Now, I'm a little hazy on when exactly this next part happened -I guess she implys to our client she doesn't want to work here anymore under these conditions (um, which she created herself). So, the client calls one of our competitors and wants to know if they will hire Jeannie and that he will move his business to them! (they've been trying to get him to for years) He tells them all that has happened with her & John!!! Now, of course, this has pissed John off because it has gotten back to him from someone else. So this is part of the fight on the 29th..."either you quit seeing our client or you have to not be telling him things about what happen at the office because it affects business." So, she typed up & signed a resignation. Her 2 week notice. Her last day was to be the 14th.
Jeannie is all kinds of pissed. She says there is no way she is traing a new person to take HER job that she was FORCED into leaving. She'll show up & do the minimal and work. Do not expect her to put in any extra effort or be happy. And the new girl had better stay away from her. I told John my humble opinion of "tell her thanks for the 2 week notice, but it's not necessary, she can go now." If she's not going to help train someone, why does she need to be there?
This monday (the 3rd) John tells me that he's going to talk to her again & if she's not willing to help train a new hire that her last day can be friday the 7th. So, he goes in to talk to her and then she doesn't come back after lunch again. I asked what was up now. He said that although she's offically quit her job here, she has not so much as typed a resume or looked for a job. She thought this whole thing was just going to blow over like everything else and be fine. So, he gave her the afternoon off to go apply for jobs.
So, that is work!