A little ramble before bed
Aug. 14th, 2005 10:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hilsHaving a bit of a problem at the moment. A few months ago a girl started working for me. She was pleasant enough and good at her job and we started chatting when she came to drop stuff off to me. We went out for lunch a couple of times and it was all fine but I began to notice that she was getting quite clingy. We went from being colleagues to her pouring her heart out to me about everything and it kind of felt like she was forcing her friendship onto me. I spoke to Greg about it and he said he'd noticed it too.
I felt kind of bad as she clearly wanted someone to talk to, but I began to notice it wasn't just me. She goes out of her way to say hello to and know everyone in the building. It kind of freaks me out a bit, especially as she makes a massive drama out of everything and I'm the one who has to listen to it all. She's angry at the moment because a few people at work have been promoted over her and she just won't stop talking about it. She actually started crying about it on Friday and then she phoned me today to rant about it some more. She's invited me to hers for dinner tomorrow and told me to bring an overnight kit so I can stop over and don't have to walk home in the dark on my own. I said yes, but thinking about it I just know she's going to spend the whole night complaining about work or some other drama in her life and honestly I'm really not in the mood.
I'm not really sure how to get her to back off a bit. She's 6 years younger than me and I think she looks at me as kind of an older sister/mother figure. I'm worried if I tell her to back off she'll just freak out even more. I can see it getting into a kind of Cable Guy (the movie) scenario.
I'll have to decide how to play it in the morning. At the moment I'm thinking of just making an excuse and not going. If I do go I'm not going to stay over.
Urgh, complicated
I felt kind of bad as she clearly wanted someone to talk to, but I began to notice it wasn't just me. She goes out of her way to say hello to and know everyone in the building. It kind of freaks me out a bit, especially as she makes a massive drama out of everything and I'm the one who has to listen to it all. She's angry at the moment because a few people at work have been promoted over her and she just won't stop talking about it. She actually started crying about it on Friday and then she phoned me today to rant about it some more. She's invited me to hers for dinner tomorrow and told me to bring an overnight kit so I can stop over and don't have to walk home in the dark on my own. I said yes, but thinking about it I just know she's going to spend the whole night complaining about work or some other drama in her life and honestly I'm really not in the mood.
I'm not really sure how to get her to back off a bit. She's 6 years younger than me and I think she looks at me as kind of an older sister/mother figure. I'm worried if I tell her to back off she'll just freak out even more. I can see it getting into a kind of Cable Guy (the movie) scenario.
I'll have to decide how to play it in the morning. At the moment I'm thinking of just making an excuse and not going. If I do go I'm not going to stay over.
Urgh, complicated