EX-COLLEAUE FROM HELL
So, let me tell you about this intern, my company hired at work. Her name is A, and for the first 6 months, she was amazing. We clicked right away—hanging out, chatting like old friends, the whole deal. But then something shifted when she got converted to full-time. It was like a switch flipped, and suddenly, I felt like I didn’t even exist to her.
At first, I thought it was just a phase. Maybe she was busy settling into her new role or something. But as the weeks went by, I noticed she stopped talking to me. It was weird because we used to share everything our lives, our thoughts but now it felt like I was just a ghost in the office. I’d hear about her life from other colleagues instead of her.
One day, I was in the break room when she started acting really strange. She pulled out her phone and showed a picture of her friend—let’s call her F. She asked another colleague what they thought of F. “Not bad, I guess,” they replied. Then A dropped this bomb: “Did you know she had plastic surgery?”
B looked surprised and said, “Oh, I can’t tell.” Then A showed the before-and-after pictures and asked again, “What do you think?” B hesitated, saying, “Um... I think before was nicer.” And A lit up, “RIGHT? I KNEW IT! She was so pretty before! Now she looks... um, nice but weird.”
I was standing there thinking, “Wow, this is a lot.” And then C chimed in, asking what was so exciting. A showed them the after pic, and C was confused, asking if they were looking at the same person or if they were sisters. A laughed and said, “My friend did plastic surgery! That’s why her face looks so weird now.”
C tried to be nice, saying B was still pretty, but A insisted, “No way! She looked better before!” It felt so judgmental; I was cringing a bit.
Then A switched topics and started showing off pictures of her ex-boyfriends. “They’re cute, right?” she asked. B and C were all intrigued, asking if they were single. A joked that they had high standards but maybe they’d consider B and C since they were Korean. They laughed it off.
But here’s the kicker: while all this was happening, I was just standing there, feeling invisible. When lunch break rolled around and I walked past A in the pantry, she completely ignored me. But as soon as B showed up, they were laughing together like nothing had changed. It stung a little—I couldn’t figure out why she was treating me like this.
A few months later, I introduced my friend D to the team because we had an opening. Suddenly, A was all over D, asking how we knew each other and digging for details. And then she casually mentioned that she thought I was “boring” and “not fun to be with and she preferred hanging out with girls who likes staying out late not a good girl who after work goes home.” Like, seriously? After 10 months of bonding? What happened?😨
Things got even weirder when A decided to play detective and started snooping around for resumes on the company computer. She couldn’t find mine or D’s and asked D why that was. D was like, “Uh, why do you want to see our resumes?” And A just shrugged it off, saying she was curious.
Then she turned to D and asked why she was friends with me. D said something nice like I’m fun, chill, and cool, but A didn’t seem impressed at all. It felt like she was trying to undermine our friendship or something.
Honestly, it’s been such a rollercoaster watching A change from someone I thought was a friend into someone who barely acknowledges me anymore. I don’t know what happened along the way, but it’s left me feeling pretty confused about our whole dynamic.
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