I’ve got this employee who works a double standard like there’s no tomorrow.
She’s older, she grumpy and crotchety like most older women. And she makes fun of literally every single person in the place. Especially behind their backs. And she does it mean spirited.
But the second you tease her about something (JOKINGLY) she starts complaining to higher ups that we’re “making fun of her disabilities”.
Example 1. She’s told me a hundred times that she takes her hearing aids out at work when the boss is talking to her so she doesn’t have to listen to them and then she forgets to put them back in. Once, she was standing in front of the cook who was taking hot pans from the oven. The cook kept asking her to move cause she had hot pans with hot liquid in them, to the point of yelling to get her attention. She wouldn’t move, she just kept chatting to the other cook on the line, cause she obviously couldn’t hear. I heard the yelling and came out of my office to help the cook, and when I said something along the lines of “can’t you hear? She’s yelling at you to move” she got so angry. Saying I was making fun of her disability of being partially deaf. She went to my boss crying that I was being mean. She didn’t talk to me for 2 months, until multiple people in the kitchen told her to get over it. I even apologized many times (even though I still don’t think it was warranted.
Example 2. After chatting across the whole kitchen loudly, making fun of pretty much everyone, she asked if I had laryngitis cause I wasn’t talking. (Mind you, I’m working on a catering, so I’m focused on my work). I smiled and said back with a laugh, “well you’re doing enough talking for the two of us, so I figured it was fine.” She walked away and came back a moment later and asked if I had anyone in my family with disabilities. I confidently said back, yes, my mother has severe disabilities (she does). And she said, well do you make fun of her too, or just me? The lady standing next to me said, “is talking too much a disability? Cause I’d like to file for that” Yeah, she didn’t like that. She threw her hands up and walked away in a huff.
Like. Wtf man. Grow up. You cant bitch about everyone else and get mad when someone talks back to you.
