I am not sorry for the vulgarity. It is the only possible response that I can have to something this ridiculous. My idiotic colleague, the one I thought was nice? He has gotten me into trouble umpteen times, pushed loads of work on me, manipulated me to request for things from my boss, and now he dares to make this ridiculous suggestion to me.
Idiotic colleague: Tina, do you have things to do?
Me (all suspicious): Err… Yes, why?
Idiotic colleague: Because I’m going to stay quite late tonight … *mumbles* I thought you can stay and accompany me.
Me (can’t believe what I just heard): Huh? What did you say?
Idiotic colleague: I’m going to stay till quite late tonight. I thought if you have things to do, maybe you can stay and accompany me.
Me: Err… I don’t think so. I’m having dinner with my friend.
Idiotic colleague: Wah lau. Want to die, die together la!
Me: Huh? I already finished all my articles. The only thing I can do now is to wait for the Editor to edit it and send it to you.
I was thinking to myself, “Sorry, I don’t want to die. You want to die, you go and die by yourself lah.”
Idiotic colleague: It’s not my fault that the articles are not sent back. Not very fair to me also (he’s referring to the big scolding he got from my boss yesterday because he’s so behind in his work.)
WTF right?! Why on earth should I stay and accompany him when I have already finished all my work?! And yes, it’s not completely his fault that he has so much work left undone, but it’s not my fault either, so why should I have to die together with him?!?!
True, the articles are delayed partly because I was slow in producing them, and because of technical issues, my editor did not receive some of the articles and thus the whole process was delayed. But I gave him the details of some ads earlier on. He has not done up the ads till now. Also, some articles were returned early in the month which I also passed to him. Guess what? Still not done. So who should be blamed ultimately?
No way will I be so stupid as to accompany him. The previous editor actually napped in the office and waited for him to finish his work. Is that stupid or what?! I’ve finished my work. You didn’t finish yours. No reason for me to stay behind.
And what’s worse is this idiotic colleague always tries to manipulate people to help him, but when the time comes when you need help, he’s absolutely unwilling to help. He’ll say things like “dunno, check with the boss …” How helpful. So, I also don’t feel compelled or even guilty for not helping him. He can die if he wants, for all I care.
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