ICE Hero Award

I would like to nominate Mavvy for an ICE Hero Award for bitching out Stepzilla during a private meeting while I was at a week-long sanctuary. Mavvy makes the third person that has verbally lashed Stepzilla for her idiosyncrasies, and she managed to gather enough information to have a successful scolding within two months! Yay Mavvy! Here is an excerpt from the very descriptive blog* of the events that transpired:

“So I'm in her office (Hell, Hades, Gehenna, whatever). She goes into some spiel about training BLAH BLAH BLAH. I tuned out for a while there. She really likes to listen to herself talk. Then she says, "I sense you've been frustrated lately." Well, it's about goddamn time. I've only been sending you I hate you, don't look at me, and don’t talk to me vibes for four months now. Here's my chance, as Bon Jovi would say, it's now or never. Oh this is going to feel good...

“I start off by addressing her negativity. You see, she really enjoys making caustic remarks about the rest of the people in the office. Usually it just pertains to how dumb or incompetent some other employee is. Or perhaps how ridiculous their requests are, and ALWAYS that they are nowhere near as good at their job as she is at hers. But occasionally she likes to psychoanalyze people, people like our CEO. It was art fair time. Stepzilla comes in and hears us talking about some lovely vases that the CEO had purchased. Her contribution to the conversation? "Well god it has to be better than that hideous jewelry she bought last year. I mean, when will she realize that she can buy all she wants, but it's not going to make her happy?" Ah, we should all be so wise as Stepzilla.

“So I tell her the fact that she says horrible things about everyone in the building is really bringing down morale. I mean, she even says things about members of the department when they're not there. So surely she is saying shit about you when you have the misfortune to be absent. Now get ready for her justification of the constant derogatory remarks. You see, Stepzilla is the master of excuses and turning things around so she is not at fault. At least in her mind she is. To the rest of us she is pathetic and desperate. She tells me, "Well, not that this has happened too much since you've been here, but in the past, we've had people come into the marketing office and tell us that they don't like the pieces the designers have done. And so when I say those things I'm trying to let you guys know that hey, those people aren't perfect either. I'm just trying to be a buffer. You know, just to make you guys feel better." WHAT A LOAD OF BULLSHIT! She must have had to reach pretty far up her ass to come up with that one. So I laughed. It was all I could do. And then I told her I found that to be really hard to believe. Her response, "fine."

“My next point of contention is the fact that she loudly voices her disdain for Christianity whenever she feels like it. She's an atheist, or so she says. We all know who she really is. But I digress. I mean, who does that? You're a fucking manager and you're going to spout off about what a bunch of dolts Christians are in front of people whose religious convictions are completely unknown to you? Unknown because you don't give a shit about anybody unless it relates directly to you. Sharpie put it best when she said, "She wouldn't give a shit if we were on FIRE, unless it somehow affected her." So I tell her that I am a Christian and I find it incredibly offensive and disrespectful that she is bashing my religion. Ok, so I’m not exactly Ned Flanders. But I used to go to church when I was a kid, that should count for something right? The point is that I made her feel like an ass. Mission accomplished.

“Other things happened during the meeting too. Things like me bitch slapping her and then impaling the side of her head with an ink pen. Ok, so those things only happened in my head. The rest of what really went down I'm either too tired to remember or I've already blocked from my memory…”

They grow up so quickly, don’t they? I’m so proud of Mavvy. I would just post a link directly to her blog, but true identities aren’t that secret there. All words quoted above are taken directly from her blog.*

*names have been changed to protect the innocent and for clarity to my loyal readers.