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Why Lord,why?
She is probably the funniest person I have ever met in my entire life. I thought she and I had really hit it off, as she was the person who ended up providing most of the training that I needed. 
At that point I stopped talking to her, I stopped joking with her, and I simply tuned her out with all of the others. This is a woman that I respected and really enjoyed working with. When I heard her talking about me, it seriously hurt. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img] She is a grown woman, and one of the most intelligent and most unbelievably funny women I know. 
Internally I am embarrassed for appearing so young and foolish in front of my co-workers. If they thought I was a drama queen, there was no disputing it now. I was feeling incredibly stupid and small. 
Everyone has known this about her for this long, yet I have been suffering? It is obvious I have been made the outsider even though it appeared the entire company was in agreement with me and my feelings about Amanda. Why have I been made to feel this way? Why has this been ignored until now? Why, in all of my attempts to communicate this to my manager has it always failed? Why hasn’t anything been done about this? 
She confirms that I have been treated like an outsider, intentionally, by just about every member on our team. She says she can’t explain it except to say they have all worked together for a long time and I a new. This seems to justify it in her mind. Not in mine. I am still [censored]. I tell her I heard her and just about every other member of the team talking about me behind my back. I tell her I thought she and I had hit it off until I heard her say the things she said. I pointed out the team mate who was laughing at me just a few minutes prior, and wondered what I had ever done to her to make her dislike me so much. 
She apologizes to me up and down, left and right, and agrees she needs to do better. She tells me that she will go to our manager on my behalf and be sure that something is done to lighten my work load and kick my team mates butt into gear. [img]/forums/images/graemlins/70409-waytogo.gif[/img]
I went back to my office and tried to concentrate on work. Sometime during the day my manager knocked on my office door and asked “How did the presentation go?” Obviously no one had spoken to him yet to tell him I didn’t present. I replied with “Oh well… I presented something. It wasn’t exactly what everyone wanted, but it was something.” Sensing that there was some hidden meaning behind my statement that would rock the boat, my manager just smiled and walked away. 
I mean, we had a sort of history; it was almost like he was a member of my family! We were always chatting in the hallways at work when we passed one another. We spoke about work a lot, he had also been helping me learn the ropes, and we spoke about Jamaica, it turns out he has some family that went to college with Red. I am not sure what made me want to talk to him. I just wanted some confirmation that I wasn’t loosing my mind, that somehow the company I worked for really was a crazy environment, and I myself wasn’t crazy. 
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