Book Sale Breakdown

Book Sale Breakdown     

I think it’s Step-on-me’s new mission to blame everything on scapegoat Piper, simply because Piper is leaving. She blamed the fact that she brought the wrong signs to the sale on Piper—because Piper obviously just made them ALL WRONG. And Piper can’t get anything right. It wasn’t the fact that Step just packed the wrong signs.

Step-on-me also was too busy gossiping to the sales department to pay attention to the fact that she actually had a customer standing right beside her that wanted to know more about ICE. And to think she calls us Chatty-Cathies. Obnoxious. You know if that was the marketing department (or any other person at ICE) that was too busy talking to pay attention to customers, we’d get reamed up the wazoo. But with her, it’s okay.

Step was also overheard saying loudly to everyone in the room that, “THIS IS MY BOOKSALE” to anyone that had a suggestion about anything. All success goes to her and all failure goes to everyone else. Even the fact that Clark, Piper, and I were astounded that CEO-Lady acknowledged us by name (actual names!!) and commended us for our particular duties (each and everyone identified) was claimed by Step-on-me with a, “Well, I basically drafted the email for her to send. That’s the only reason she said it.” So, what we thought was CEO-Lady’s mistake on identifying the wrong duties to the wrong people was actually Step-on-me’s mistake (unforgivable because she directly manages the marketing department) and not CEO-Lady’s mistake (forgivable because she’s not supposed to be involved in the marketing department).

So aside from being a gossip hound, claiming everything successful for her own, and blaming everything wrong on everyone else, she also did something particularly ICE-ish.

I’ve got to set this one up right, or you won’t understand.

Step-on-me frequently complains about people being melodramatic at ICE. About how they freak out over everything and run around like spooked sheep. Mindless beings—idiots—as it were. We took several cars to set up for the Book Sale, and a couple was going back to HQ empty. Most of the cars were packed with stuff for the sale, but they weren’t packed very well. There was a lot of extra room floating around in the vehicle I took—enough so that I was worried about a box flying up from the back of the car and bashing myself or the driver in the head.

Step-on-me spent a majority of the afternoon at the sale harassing the staff there about how we weren’t going to have enough room for all our stuff. That somebody might have to be left behind! That we didn’t have any room because she didn’t want anything in her vehicle and she didn’t want staff unloading anything at ICE when we got back! OMG!! Freakout!!

So you see, Step spent most of the book sale freaking out about something stupid, and then she sent me and another coworker back home early with an empty vehicle. How does this make sense? One second she’s acting like the idiots she always complains about, and then she’s sending people home in an empty car. What the hell is wrong with this woman??

While Step was freaking out, I would isolate one coworker at a time and ask them why Step was freaking out. Was this really a problem? Everyone seemed horribly annoyed by Step—almost as if she does this all the time.

Does this make Step-on-me a ‘hector-projector’--a person that, instead of admitting their own fault, projects their feelings onto others and blame them for being idiotic in order to settle their own hectic feelings?