Another work-related entry. This firm is really testing my patience. Yesterday there was a problem that pissed me off pretty nicely. Today I get that sorted out and now I have a brand new reason to be even more pissed than yesterday.
My work station today was next to a blabber blabber guy and a young woman. The guy gave me the third degree:
"Do you have a boyfriend?"
"No."
I guess my tone had some undertone in it that I didn't hear because the next question went thus:
"Do you have a girlfriend?"
"No, not at the moment."
Clearly the guy was after my marital status (for reasons I just plain don't get.. again!) and what happens: he doesn't really even bother to conceal it as he jumped up and ran to the supervisor/colleague to talk about me. Now, this isn't even me being paranoid: he pointed at me and the supervisor looked at me. I mean FUCK! What is he, a fucking mentally teen asshole. And the "best" part was "with" the female. She's a gypsy and the tradition there is very homophobic. So what do I get? I have to get up from my chair and bend down to get a wire away from the chair's roller so I won't break anything. And her reaction? She made the guy ask me if I'd dropped my pen and I explained no, that it's the wire that keeps getting stuck on the chair roller. And then she did something I've only heard of before: she left hurriedly to the bathroom explaining as she went that she really needed to do that. Coming back she explained rather loudly something about "personal reasons".
I'm already wondering what tomorrow will bring as if she or anyone else tries to pull something like that again, I'm going to have to speak up. And maybe, just maybe, I'm actually not going to be so hurt I can't think of anything even remotely clever to shut them up for good.
It seems that many of you are working, so I assume you have some experience on this matter. I remember Aboa mentioning of a colleague who kept referring to his husband as his "wife" knowing perfectly well he is a he. So what the fuck are we supposed to do this type of situations, especially when the superiors don't have the spine to cut it out once and for all. I mean, hello! It's not like she doesn't know about this, she was there and part of the gossiping circle, goddamit!!!
