I can't say enough about hypocrisy and all its evils. What I can say is that I am Sick. To. Death. of all the drama surrounding said hypocrisy. What was once a pretty solid work team, has now become a posse of chronic complainers who complain about other people complaining about other people. *blinks*

WHAT??

Who do you think gets called into the "principle's" office?

That's right folks, yours truly.

*eyeroll*

I've got a giant bag of "I don't give a fat rat's whisker" about it! All I could say to the man who told me that "*I* am driving all the other managers crazy with MY complaints" was, "Ya' know ____, it's a give and take here buddy. If you think, for a red-hot second that I am the only one doing any complaining, you really need to take the blinders off and really SEE what's going on here." I also said something to this effect:

Sometimes you need to vent to get through a tough spot.

And that's the bald truth. Sometimes just getting off your chest what's weighing it down is enough to lighten the load you're carrying so you can get through the jam you're in without going bahooty.

So What!

We ALL do it. Every. Single. One. Of. Us.

I will never again be called into the principle's office to be brought up on BS charges. I will no longer be a part of this stupid, juvenile, third-grade game. So I say nothing. Absolutely nothing. I do what I'm supposed to- by my OWN standards, which are higher than anyone else's, and leave. Because that is what is going to save my sanity.

Know what? NOW I'm the enemy because I don't say anything! I do everything I'm supposed to, but I don't chit-chat with anyone about anything, because... you guessed it, 9 out of 10 times, they're complaining about someone else- and so I excuse myself and walk away!

I've been called "antisocial," "bitchy," "cold," & "distant."

Go figure!

Guess what! That's the way it's going to stay. I don't go to work to make friends. I go to work to make money. If friends happen, that's a great benefit, if not, it's not a loss.

What's that old adage? "Can't win for losing?"

THIS is *exactly* why I prefer solitude to company.