Take this job and...

My wife currently works three days a week in a small office in the next village. As with most jobs, the work is fine but there are always some people who are a pain in the arse.

There are three full-timers and herself. The manager is due for retirement and one of the full-timers is trying to position herself to take over. This woman, let's call her 'Angela', causes all the grief. She doesn't appear to be very bright and can't see her mistakes.

Example 1: Angela takes a day off and goes for an interview with a competitor only 30 yards from the place she works now. When she gets found out she claims it was a 'market research' exercise.

Example 2: On another leave day Angela goes back into the same competitor, asks for the manager and tells him "I'm your competition. We need to talk." What the hell are you doing woman? You're not a manager, you haven't been tasked to do this and you've gained nothing at all except the derison of your colleagues and superiors. Plus, you've pissed off the competition that may have given you a job when you get sacked.

Example 3: Yet another leave day, she can't have much of a life. Angela arrives at head office unannounced and invites herself to the weekly office staff meeting. People are seriously begining to question her sanity now.

Example 4: A potential client shows up and wants some details. All fairly normal stuff. Now what do you think a good sales negotiator should do? Offer some coffee and biscuits? Go through some figures? Not our Angela, she decides that because the woman is wearing a business suit that she must be a spy from a competitor and throws her out.

Example 5: She makes a cock-up on a sale for one her clients. They come into the office to confront her about it. Does she apologise and offer to remedy it? Why bother with the truth when you can point, yes I did say point, at a colleague not ten feet away and loudly blame them.

So my wife applied for another job, had an interview last Friday and got a job offer last night. It'll mean a five-day week and more money but all the money will be eaten by child care costs. It'll get easier once the kids start school though.

She's going to accept the offer and can't wait to cite that bitch Angela's behaviour as the main reason for her decision to quit.