More fun with SCWW


I keep going back on my word. I said in my first post that I would tell more about my other co-workers, but right now I want to concentrate on SCWW while introducing you to the another prominent character in the Quality Control Lab character base.

The Crazy Everybody Hates Her Middle Aged (Used to be fat but had gastric bypass surgery) White Woman (from now on, MsAnnoying) has had run ins with virtually every employee in the plant. She is a fiftysomething, OVERGROWN child. If something does not go the way the MsAnnoying wants it to go, she will
a. Throw a hissy fit
b. Go a tattlin'
c. Manipulate the hell out of any and everyone
to get what she wants. We refer to her as a big bully. Trust me when I say that you will get A LOT more in future posts about the glimpse of hell given to me by MsAnnoying, but it's safe to say that she does not target me anymore, I am now merely a witness to her madness.

While I acknowledge the pockets of OCD that I exhibit; compulsive neatness in 'my' areas, demanding, pompous organizing of test/test results that I manipulate, irritation at others' disorganization, and obsessively keeping any body part of mine out of contact with ANY surface in a public bathroom, I realized that everybody does not care about my concerns. (Sidenote; they should.) MsAnnoying does not see how her concerns should stop the presses. Like I said in my first post, SCWW is a slob. She is messy and inconsiderate of where she puts both things that she wants and things she wants to discard. This grates MsAnnoying. Grates her to the point she writes plant wide emails detailing her exasperation with SCWW and plots DAILY to get management attention on SCWW's mistake and shortcomings.

A recent situation between MsAnnoying and SCWW involves SCWW screwing up entries in one of our databases and MsAnnoying not being able to follow up her work. I came into work over a weekend and MsAnnoying couldn't wait 6 seconds before she was telling me all of SCWW's screw ups. She ended her tirade with, "I can't wait till TheManager fires her!" Mmmkay, now...

Rewind to March of this year when MsAnnoying's only daughter births a MiniAnnoying (to-be, I'm sure). She is named Alice Christine. Compare this to SCWW's birthname of Alicia Christianne.*

I was so observant and kind enough to notice the similarities in their names and brought it to MsAnnoying's attention. Well, I knew what I was doing, and it had nothing to do with being kind.
Cue the cartoon where the man turns beet red and little squiggly heat lines start radiating away from his head while a teapot whistle is heard. Really. She turned red. She managed to stammer out something like, "Well...I don't care too much for the name...but...I think, I'm just going to call her Grannie's Little Cherub." Poor thing. Imagine being called in for dinner while playing with the neighborhood kids by "Grannie's Little Cherub...time to come in! Dinner's Ready!"

Well, I just like that story because it reminds me of two things. First, in about 20+ years when I am becoming a grandmother to check my grandchild's name with my list of enemies that I've been gathering and second, that MsAnnoying can morph into a cartoon-like character before my eyes with the right choice of words. Voila. Instant entertainment.

*These are not their real names, are you serious?!?! They will NOT be suing me…