Okay, it's no big secret that I am not happy in my current position at work. I am sick to death of being treated like a dumping ground for everything that no one else wants to do or thinks they are too "good" to do. I seriously am. Just today, PersonA that I work with and have been social with completely lost my trust. I was doing 2 URGENT projects for my manager and apparently she had emailed me something that she thought I should drop what I was doing for the MANAGER and rush to her aid. So, okay, lemme back up. Earlier in the day another person and I were chatting about how it was "earthquake weather" outside. We totally agreed on this and prepared ourselves mentally for "the big one." Anyway, this person had emailed me (mind you, she is no more that 20 feet away) to see if I had anything on a file from May. During this time, I had not checked my email as I was busy with the two urgent projects mentioned earlier. So, fast forward to when I'm checking my email...and I said to another co-worker, "Remember what we talked about earlier with the earthquake weather? Well in my news, it says they had a little swarm of earthquakes in Bakersfield!" Apparently PersonA overheard us (being less than 20 feet away and all) and MEANT to IM another co-worker sitting 10 feet away from her, "I sent JLo an email and hour and a half ago about a file and she is reading the news and hasn't got back to me!" :o I IMmed back, "Apparently, you IMmed the wrong person." She IMmed back, "Oh, it was a test to see how you would react." WTF? She wasn't testing me. She was being bitchy about me behind my back...or so she thought. I did NOT let her know that IN FACT, my email was querying the file information as I read the REST OF MY E-MAIL WHICH INCLUDES NEWS UPDATES that are emailed to me. What a cow. I certainly plan on bringing this up to my manager when I'm back in on Monday. It certainly isn't PersonA's job to monitor what I'm doing on the damned computer or at my desk. I emailed her that the information was no longer available to me and that it was practice at that time for the coworkers to follow up with their customers for that information after I finished my part. She emails back for me to contact the customer. Fine. I did so. Gah. Whatever, I'm not into playing stupid games. I'd rather get the job done rather than playing, "Who is more important." She knows that I am one to keep "notes" on things that my coworkers do. She certainly raised the hackles of the WRONG Southern girl. She forgets that I don't necessarily need this job that there are others out there just like it and that my husband CAN support me very much unlike her. Monday morning I shall begin a new tab on my spreadsheet dedicated juuuust for her. Lucky gal.