evil bitch

i had a perfectly chill and (mostly) peaceful 10 months at my last workplace, and then we had a change of managers.

this woman, the first time i ever came across her was during my first month on the job, we were at a training session and after that 2 short hours, i didn't know her name or who the hell she was, but i knew that i had to be careful of her.

first impressions - devious, annoying, dangerous.

as time went on, we made friends with some people from her team and found out more about her. my first impressions were wrong.

she was way worse than that.

during the meeting when my manager announced that she was taking over, this woman was all smiles and tried her very best to make us like her. it was so awkward to watch her repeat over and over again (no kidding) that she was "very nice," "very understanding," and that we shouldn't "believe what other people say" about her.

so she took over, and the first month she was still putting on her lovely face, smiling, smiling, that fucking awful and fake smile, it reminded me of a ghost story i once read about a demon which had a permanent wide smile etched on its face.

i was already planning to leave and she gave me all the motivation i ever needed. i resigned within that month, but even that was a little too late because soon after that, things got really bad.

some of the things she's done:
- said that we were stupid even before she took over and had zero contact with us
- told her team that she wanted to 'kill' one of my colleagues, tricked him into doing some work for her and then completely destroyed him
- implement changes and when they turned out to be wrong, blamed it on my colleague
- questioned and made snide remarks about my colleagues' upbringing
- twisted facts and conjured lies like it was the most normal thing to do
- tried her very best to make my previous manager look bad
- threatened to cancel all our leave
- bully one of her previous staff to the point where she would cry every sunday because she was afraid of going to work
- have her staff buy breakfast for her every morning, and then complain when the food isn't nice or "why did you buy this when you know i don't like it?!"

somewhere in between, i had the misfortune of crossing paths with her and ended up having a big 'discussion' with her, my whole team, and my previous manager. i wasn't gonna let this old bitch step over me so it wasn't very pleasant. she pulled out all her dirty tricks and i didn't hold back.

when it was over, one of the guys said to me "wah, just now the way you laugh at her fucking sarcastic man, if you do it outside, people will beat you up."

in the end, everyone from my team were going to resign and that's when she started to panic and try to trick some of them to stay. she managed to hit 3 of them in the right spots and they remained behind to be her slaves.

funny enough, when i talk to those that have been with her for a long time, they all know what kind of a fucked up person she is (no dispute there, really) but some of them still manage to find some glimmer of hope from their endless suffering.

it's as though they've already been taking her shit for so long that they are now immune to it and instead magnify the slightest good deeds to help brighten their days.

one of the common comments i hear from them is that she can be very good to the people she likes. she will protect them, help them, etc. and so those who choose to work under her will always do every damn thing to remain in her good books.

and then one girl told me: "i think she is a really good person, she's only like that at work." i didn't know what to say.