http://cafe.jenkster.com/permalink/cafe/i_must_confess_i_m_beginning Comments for "I must confess; I’m beginning" en http://cafe.jenkster.com/permalink/cafe/i_must_confess_i_m_beginning <p>I must confess; I’m beginning to get worried about a colleague of mine. He’s been acting very strangely lately. Really odd, y’know? Makes me feel… disturbed. I think for all our sakes, I should have a word with him, but I don’t know what to say…</p> <p>…for ages he’s been giving a hard time to the guy who works in the office downstairs. Kinda mean, but not without reason. I mean, we all have our vote for who’s the biggest jerk in the office, don't we? But it’s worse than that. Over the past few months, this has turned into a vendetta. Seriously.</p> <p>Anyway, almost a month ago, he went on something of a campaign to discredit him, and effectively try to get him sacked. If I’m honest, I didn’t really like the guy myself, so I turned something of a blind eye. And now, after a few weeks of viciousness, the guy has quit.<br /> I’m not getting ‘holier than thou’ – there’s no great love lost between us, but even so…the viciousness of this seems a bit excessive. It's not cricket, y’know? Especially, well…that kind of behaviour from a mate.</p> <p>But despite that, I’d turned a blind eye. didn’t like the bloke much myself, and, well, my mate who got him chucked out – he’s a mate, isn’t he?</p> <p>Anyway, I thought the weekend would settle things down. I thought that would be the end of it. It wasn't.</p> <p>This morning I came into work, and my friend’s close mates were talking <i>at</i> him, in a way that just looked suspicious. Somehow, ‘Cloak And Dagger’. They were angry, too, but I couldn't tell where their anger was directed.<br /> Then, as soon as I’d finished reading my morning emails, damn it if my friend didn’t start having a go a the </i>next</i>-most disliked person in the office!</p> <p>He started talking about the first guy he got rid of, and how he and this other guy were buddies. And how the other guy better shape up. How he’d better <i>watch himself…</i></p> <p>I was just sitting there, drinking my cup of tea, thinking, “Where’s it going to stop?”</p> <p>I hate to say it – and I know there’s a chance this guy’s reading my blog – but fump me, he’s turning a bit paranoid. On the surface, he seems alright, but he’s so shy. So scared. So easily influenced by his hard-case mates.</p> <p>I swear, this thing could well tear the office apart…</p> <p>Dubya – if you’re reading this mate, I’m don’t know what to tell you…but I’m worried. Is there any way we can sort this out?</p> http://cafe.jenkster.com/permalink/cafe/i_must_confess_i_m_beginning#comments Mon, 14 Apr 2003 23:20:44 +0100 Kris 206 at http://cafe.jenkster.com