The Office | Working with Toxic People

Last Friday, Business Week ended but unlike before I didn't party on the stage with the others. I just stood from the 3rd floor veranda and watched. I didn't feel tired or anything, I'm just not in the mood for it.  There were controversies and problems but it was settled peacefully with not much pressure from the person I expected.

There was something I was able to confirm though. I'm not part of the office family. I thought after three years of working with the same people and doing my best with my job the way they look at me will change, but it didn't. They still treat me as an outcast and the things that happened throughout this week proved that they're all just waiting for something wrong to happen.

One of my officemates is actually an honest friend. Something happened and they talked it over through a Facebook chat room where everyone is a member for a long time except for me. He even added "They will never add you in that group chat." So I didn't know exactly what was happening but everyone is already commenting awfully about me behind my back.

I've managed to stay strong for the past years they've been bashing me and making up stories about me. I've been ignoring all the times when I'm trying to talk to them but they pretend like they don't hear me or shut me up while I'm talking. And I've been so patient with people sabotaging my work just so they could get ahead. But those things start to pile up and it gets tiring.

I thought doing the job I love is enough to make me stay, but sometimes I feel it wont be when fourteen people makes you feel alone inside the same office. The only consolation I get is the fact that I enjoy my job and it pay my bills with a little extra.


-Aisiah Ezekyel