What do you do when your friends start behaving erratically for no apparent reason?
Report them to HR, in case you work together. And that’s what a restaurant worker had to do with one of her best friends and coworkers named Stephanie. They’ve been working together for some time and have had a mother-daughter type of relationship. In the last few weeks, a new girl named Olivia started working there, and Stephanie despised her from day one for no apparent reason. She started doing everything in her power to make Olivia’s job harder. The server has no personal issues with Olivia, so she thinks that Stephanie’s attitude is not the best. Stephanie accused her of betraying her, not being loyal, and saying mean things behind her back, all of which none is true. The conflict escalated to a degree where the server had to file a formal complaint against her best friend, and HR could end up firing her.
The server’s guilt is understandable, but it seems like she had no other choice. Stephanie’s attitude was starting to affect more people in the workplace, not just her and Olivia, and she was not backing down from her unexplainable hate.
Under other circumstances, we could argue that older people sometimes have a sixth sense that leads them to read people better. Perhaps Stephanie realized something about Olivia’s personality that could be harmful, and that’s why she didn’t like her. The thing is that Olivia has not shown a single sign of being a conflictive or bad person. She’s been perfectly normal. And Stephanie has gone out of her way to make her life harder.
This is where we can start thinking that Stephanie might be on a power trip to control her friend and trying to manipulate her. Manipulative people tend to make you feel guilty over choosing for yourself and not following them blindly or sharing their opinions just because you are friends and should agree on everything. So far, Stephanie and her friend hadn’t had a disagreement, and the first time they did, Stephanie turned on her completely and tried to make her feel bad and guilty.
Do you think the server was right to report her, or could she have found another way to fix the situation?
Author: Kayitsi.com
