Suspicious of Her!
By lilkitty15
@lilkitty15 (115)
August 4, 2010 4:11pm CST
When I first started at my job, the girl that left before me had been well liked by both the boss and other senior members of our team. When I started I was treated as an outcast. It really was quite horrible and it was made clear that I was not considered part of the team...except by one person. This was not me being paranoid, as other people also noticed the way I was being treated by senior staff.
Recently there has been an incredible change, especially in a particular member of the team who was the most awful. I am now not only treated as a team member but as a friend. Is it wrong of me to be suspicious of the change that has suddenly come about or should it be something that I embrace with a happy smile?
Has anything like this happened to other mylotters?
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@aaronfyzeon (1920)
• Philippines
5 Aug 10
Hello Lilkitty15,
I am working before in the call center. Your personality would really not matter a lot but your performance and your statistics or your ranking. There might be noticeable office politics if there would be any competition between the two of you. Yes that is the right thing you did to just not mind it at all. they are not the ones who are giving you the salary but the company itself so do what you have to do and continue being yourself and not try so hard just like what you did.
@lilkitty15 (115)
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6 Aug 10
I think she did see me as a bit of a threat when I first got there because I really got on with the other member in the team (There's only three of us there) so I think she was worried about being pushed out...therefore went out of the way to do it to me. Thing was that I really wanted to get on with her because it is such a small team, but I just can't be bothered with it al any more. I'm there to do a job at the end of the day and I don't think she should really influence my perfomance.
Thanks for posting the advice. I really appreciate it.
@aaronfyzeon (1920)
• Philippines
4 Aug 10
Hello lilkitty15, well i was treated the same thing as well when I was in our original team, they feel uneasy when they are talking to me. The superiors though is not treating me as such but my team mates do. But then i just thought that i was a threat to them because i do have more experience and better qualifications than them to replace our supervisor in the future. this has been going on for a few months until a new batch came in our team and i have befriended them. then that is the time i had all their trust and everybody likes me because that was the time where i got to prove that i really am very friendly it is just that i am not the one who is starting to greet them first.
@lilkitty15 (115)
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5 Aug 10
Thanks for responding. Can I ask what it is that you do?
I don't mean to feel so cynical about the whole thing, but it just feels like there might be a reason that her tune as changed about me. I did go out of my way at the beginning to be friendly and get to know her and in return she went out of her way to make me feel like an outsider.
It actually started to change when I stopped caring so much about it. Maybe that's the thing that's changed...I stopped trying so hard.
I'm glad to hear things got better where you work though, it really is horrible being made to feel like you're not part of the team.
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