snarky co-workers

[Blair138]

So-I have learned my lesson about offering up too much information about myself at work, HOWEVER, I was upset today by the reaction of some when an acquaintance in another department got engaged. Her ring is GORGEOUS, big and sparkly and looks amazing on her hand. She is very excited that it finally happened, and although we are not close, she emailed me over the weekend to tell me the good news! So when I saw her today I was ecstatic for her!! I was telling another friend (who is married) how beautiful the ring is and how big and sparkly it is. My friend''s reaction (who had seen the ring), "I didn''t think it was so big, it was OK" Now, I am not just saying BIG and beautiful because I think it''s big, IT IS HUGE! And another co-worker said "It didn''t sparkle very much, to me it''s not a good quality stone". In my head, I am thinking these 2 women are CRAZY!

I don''t know if they have ring envy (though they both are married) or what, but I just sat there and didn''t say much after they said those comments. Even though these ladies are friends, I started to wonder if they had said things about my ring behind my back when I got engaged, I don''t care but their behavior just shocked me.

 

[neatfreak]

They probably did...it sounds like they are unhappy with something in their own lives and are taking it out on others. Too bad for them, raining on someone else's parade won't make their lives better!

 

[Bliss]

Maybe they have cataracts?

LOL. Deadened souless eyes aren't able to see sparkle. All they see is sluuuuudgy gray snarkiness.

Hey! Or perhaps they JUST had Lasik and still had that vaseline gunk smeared all over their eyes.

There are people who don't even notice flowers anymore... or who have zero reaction to a child's smile or a gorgeous sunset.

It's kind of sad! I'd never call anyone's engagement ring "OK" -- no matter what it was. The meaning behind it is so precious and that makes it just incredible. Anything seen through loving compassionate eyes is beautiful, no?

 

[Haven]

They sound like very small people. I would pay them no mind at all. And I definitely wouldn''t ever tell them a thing about my own life.

 

[Blair138]

Bliss your response is HILARIOUS and made me laugh outloud!

Neatfreak-I agree, but one of the girls is a friend and I was shocked by her response!

Haven-I definitely have learned my lesson from being ''tattled on'' one too many times, I don''t share anything anymore. My department has gotten a little ridiculous this past year and I no longer feel like a teacher but a student sometimes with all the pettiness and gossip! It is ridiculous!

Not that the girl who got engaged knows what was said, but I feel bad in a way even though I didn''t say any of it. I haven''t heard my co-workers be this catty in a very long time and it upset me.

Good thing we only have 2 weeks until Christmas break!

 

[lala2332]

boo to yucky coworkers. What sad people that they can''t rejoice at someone else''s happy news. Even IF the ring was not all that and a bag of chips, those comments are just tacky.

Def. a good lesson on what these people''s true character is.

 

[bee*]

It drives me mad the way some people always have to put a negative on everything. Your colleagues ring sounds beautiful!! They sound like they''re jealous!

 

[Thomperchik]

Blair - I was talking about my future engagement to my SO with some of my friends and I noticed that those some weren''t happy for me. I talked to my SO and he and I concluded that when people aren''t happy with their own lifes, they are not going to be happy for anyone else.

Odds are, these women aren''t happy with either themselves, their marriage, or their rings... Odds are the latter!

 

[cbs102]

I mentioned this once before on here... t he night that i got engaged my FI and i went to my childhood friends house. she looked at my ring, shrugged her shoulders and said "huh, its nice..mine''s better" and walked away.

its so interesting how people behave. i gush over everyones ring because i know how exciting it is to get engaged...

 

[Mediterranean]

Date: 12/9/2008 4:09:10 PM
Author: cbs102
I mentioned this once before on here... t he night that i got engaged my FI and i went to my childhood friends house. she looked at my ring, shrugged her shoulders and said ''huh, its nice..mine''s better'' and walked away.


its so interesting how people behave. i gush over everyones ring because i know how exciting it is to get engaged...

Yeah, my FI''s sister did something like this to me. Creepily enough, when she wants to say something snarky about my wedding, she logs into her 14-year old SON''s e-mail account, and e-mails the snark, as if it''s coming from the kid (it''s not. No 14 year old boy in the history of the world cares about WEDDING JEWELRY for crying out loud!) So when FI''s sister heard that my FI was planning to buy two of the Facets eternity bands, one for each side of the e-ring, she wrote me an email (from her son''s account of course) saying "Oh, my mom did the same thing."

Now, my future sister in law''s beautiful wedding photos are on display in their parents'' home. They include some prominent portraiture of the wedding rings, the hands with wedding rings together, etc... and her wedding set is a very, VERY pretty, classic, elegant yellow gold, knife edge setting with a RB solitaire AND MATCHING YELLOW GOLD KNIFE EDGE BAND...not flanked by two eternities, as her "son" claims in his email.

I forwarded it to my Fi for a giggle, and he:


1. Agreed that his 14 year old video game obsessed nephew would NEVER write that.

2. my fiance e-mailed me back saying "You can bet that when we visit my parents for Xmas she will be wearing two QVC CZ eternity bands" My FI is a bit

......but, yeah, I know what you''re talking about.

 

[Blair138]

Man ladies-the nerve of some people...I had to laugh today though, when a student asked about my ring, then proceeded to ask if I had seen the newly-engaged co-workers ring... to which I replied "yes" and the student (a boy) said "it''s huge!!!" and one of the snarkies was standing in my classroom and overheard the whole thing...