RW volume 12

Just an update.

It's Tuesday after New Boss has taken over, and R is still here. R hasn't done anything to piss me off yet. Well, nothing out of the ordinary, anyway. But I'm counting my hopes that soon she'll be gone.

A while back she asked me to make her some jewelry. Due to her past behavior, (she's the pin-person) I told her I needed a deposit. She said no problem. Then I went to CA. When I came back, she asked how her jewelry was coming along. I told her that
1) I had just gotten back from a trip and hadn't made anything for anyone.
2) She never gave me a deposit, so I never started anything.

She said "oh, right, you need a deposit. Well that's just good business sense. Hang on, I'll go get it."
She never came back, which is fine with me. That was last week. Yesterday she once again asked me how her stuff was coming, and I once again told her I needed a deposit. But now I'm reluctant to start anything (provided she ever gives me any money for it) because my hopes are up so high that she will be gone soon and I'll never see her again.

Not to mention the fact that while I was at lunch she took something off of my desk (which I was going to give to her anyway because she hadn't done her job with it in the first place) and threw my note to myself crumpled up in my inbox. Here's why I was mad.

1) How dare she take things off my desk? I wasn't ready to give it to her yet - that's why I hadn't.
2) That wasn't a note to her or about her or having anything to do with her. It was my reminder for when I came back to lunch.
3) My inbox is clearly not a trash can. I do have a trash can, and it's not my inbox.

I will add that before Old Boss left, he and New Boss were speaking in hushed voices about R, and, though I was straining, I couldn't make out but a little bit. "They haven't called back yet." (the temp agency? please?) and "It's not your fault, it's just bad timing." (that we need a new receptionist?)

So I'm holding on to those overheard fragments, waiting.