more sally sue tirades

so, how excited am i that so many people are taking the flirt test! and even more pleased that we all seem to be coming up with different answers. it seems to me that we just need to all get together and have a big ol' flirt caucus in new york. compare notes. raid each others' arsenals and become invincible. yeah.

in other news

and once again, as on so many other days, we turn to the question of sally sue. how effortlessly that girl manages to alienate half the office is an absolute mystery to me. the bosslady doesn't see it, nor does the chipper aussie. newgirl and techboy just haven't been around long enough...but really. she no longer partakes in little office deals, which are silly but fun. like on triniwoman's birthday, we had a cake. we sang, and we ate cake. she sang and then ran back to her desk. triniwoman was hurt that sally sue was not interested in sticking around for the actual celebration part. she is always at the gym at lunch (well, so am i. but only a couple of days out of the week). she never comes along when we go out for drinks.

i know that this is not a character flaw. it's fine to not partake in these things.

it is not fine to look at someone else like they're tainted because they do. it is not fine to treat someone like they're subservient to you when you are both on the same level of the hierarchy, just because you made it to the back desk first. it is not okay to complain very loudly about how annoyed you were when your wonderful, loving boyfriend brought you a bag of kitty litter and some juice while you were sick, so you wouldn't have to do it yourself. not when other people around you are painfully, poignantly without boyfriend. i don't care how sad you are about the "romance" going out of the relationship. kitty litter is absolutely romantic if you look at it the right way.

anyway.

the point to this tirade is the same as every other tirade i've made about sally sue in the past. she orbits around but only rarely involves. and whatever her motives are, those of us who do not get engaged get treated like we've been rolling around in dog shit.

and, frankly, i don't take kindly to that. no matter what the reason, no matter who it is, no matter how much better and more important they think they are than i. there's such a think as common courtesy.