every time. Yes. I’m talking about my ex-boss. It’s interesting to see the various ways things have changed since I moved from dept old to dept new. I thought that, given my year and half of working with dept old that communication would be good and they’d be a good resource to go to for projects. So I went back to them with a project that’s been hanging on for at least 8 or 9 months, hoping they’d be all over working on it.

Boy, was I wrong. At least, I’m assuming I was wrong. I’ve heard nothing but one sarcastic email back from her to indicate that anything’s even happening. I mean, they had ZERO projects for at least a couple of months and I know they don’t have that much now. So you’d think they’d be happy to have something to do and be all over trying to satisfy the customer (me) but you’d be wrong. I emailed Ex-boss about the project, she sent me some stuff, and I sent back a detailed email with feedback and asking for possible timelines. I heard nada. zip. zilch. zero. big resounding silence. Having worked in that dept, I waited b/c I know their communication with their customers can be sketchy – even though I had hoped it would be different with me.

I still heard nothing. And even though I heard nothing, I had a fuzzy idea that maybe they’d started work on it anyway and just were slow getting back to me. Again, I was so wrong. I went on a school outing with one of the folks from that dept, my ex-dept worker, and asked about the project. I was told nothing was being done on it, he seemed a little surprised that I had expected anything. Or rather he seemed a little blah about the whole thing. I started to feel a little hot under the collar at that point. I said that the only reason I’d turned it back over to them is because I thought it was a good fit (project-wise) and I thought they were interested in doing it. I could do it myself and not have to worry about going over student work and the shitload of time it takes to fix it, but I thought it would be worthwhile. I asked him to check in with ex-boss again and find out the project status.

So today I get email from ex-boss that came across as very sarcastic and condescending but that finally gave me a timeline and what I could expect. So why couldn’t the bitch just do that in the first place and have saved me all the frustration and bullshit? Why couldn’t she just have answered the questions I sent in my detailed email (detailed in order to help them out) and not been such a fucking bitch?

who knows. as much as I try to look over her constant digs and picks, I’m just tired of it. And it’s even worse because she’s all sweetness and light sometimes and then she just throws out these nasty little barbs. What a fucking passive aggressive pile of shit.