So as many of you know, I have re-tooled my career and it is going very well. So well in fact, I am being approached for major promotion in just my second week. at any rate, the way our company works is you go through a rigorous training program in your first weeks before you are unleashed on the general populous.
Naturally I am being nicknamed the training group "dad". I bring in goodies and always have $5 for the guy or girl who forgot to get lunch. Always smiling and have an ear for those with a problem, etc. At the end of day 4, we lost someone. She was a wonderful girl, very nice, a sweetheart and dead gorgeous IMHO. She completely missed day 4 of training and they warn us that if you miss a whole day's training, you may not be able to continue on in the job. That was what happened.
I was kind of bummed as she had kind of gravitated towards me and I took her under my wing. Now jump ahead to yesterday afternoon. We had sessions on how things were going and I mentioned that her departure was a community bummer for the class, but we recouped and it showed how strong a team we were. After that our supervisor asked if I had a few minutes at the end of the day. I told him sure.
After everyone had said their "Have a nice weekends.", we shut the door. What he told me was a shock. Now the whole class knows I am married as I always talk about the wife and show off pics of the kids. One of the other girls who really thinks I am great for being such a devoted husband had come to our supervisor after having a talk with Terri (the girl who was now no longer in the class). It seems Terri had talked to her one day after we all had lunch together and asked her if she thought I was really that devoted as she really fancied me. It didn't stop at just that though.
It seems that Maddie (the girl who Terri told that she fancied me) saw Terri putting a note on my car. She intercepted the note and the note was very blunt about what she wanted to "do" with me. She confronted Terri and asked her what she thought she was doing. Her reply was "Getting the man I want." Maddie took it to HR and the decision was made to let her go on grounds of harassment.
As I walked out to the parking lot rather dazed at what had just been told to me. I called my wife and asked her for the "on your way home would you..." list. As we were hanging up I said, "You know I love you and only you right?" My wife kind of laughed and said of course and she knows there are women out there that wish they had what she does, but "they ain't getting you."
Monday, I'm buying Maddie lunch as a thank you for watching my back. I'm also hoping that Terri finds happiness and realizes she has a decent husband too and a "fling" isn't worth sacrificing that wonderful thing you have, but may not completely see.
Maybe I should be a little less approachable and cold. I dunno anymore, I'm still trying to wrap my head around this as I just thought she was a super kid. Live and learn.
Naturally I am being nicknamed the training group "dad". I bring in goodies and always have $5 for the guy or girl who forgot to get lunch. Always smiling and have an ear for those with a problem, etc. At the end of day 4, we lost someone. She was a wonderful girl, very nice, a sweetheart and dead gorgeous IMHO. She completely missed day 4 of training and they warn us that if you miss a whole day's training, you may not be able to continue on in the job. That was what happened.
I was kind of bummed as she had kind of gravitated towards me and I took her under my wing. Now jump ahead to yesterday afternoon. We had sessions on how things were going and I mentioned that her departure was a community bummer for the class, but we recouped and it showed how strong a team we were. After that our supervisor asked if I had a few minutes at the end of the day. I told him sure.
After everyone had said their "Have a nice weekends.", we shut the door. What he told me was a shock. Now the whole class knows I am married as I always talk about the wife and show off pics of the kids. One of the other girls who really thinks I am great for being such a devoted husband had come to our supervisor after having a talk with Terri (the girl who was now no longer in the class). It seems Terri had talked to her one day after we all had lunch together and asked her if she thought I was really that devoted as she really fancied me. It didn't stop at just that though.
It seems that Maddie (the girl who Terri told that she fancied me) saw Terri putting a note on my car. She intercepted the note and the note was very blunt about what she wanted to "do" with me. She confronted Terri and asked her what she thought she was doing. Her reply was "Getting the man I want." Maddie took it to HR and the decision was made to let her go on grounds of harassment.
As I walked out to the parking lot rather dazed at what had just been told to me. I called my wife and asked her for the "on your way home would you..." list. As we were hanging up I said, "You know I love you and only you right?" My wife kind of laughed and said of course and she knows there are women out there that wish they had what she does, but "they ain't getting you."
Monday, I'm buying Maddie lunch as a thank you for watching my back. I'm also hoping that Terri finds happiness and realizes she has a decent husband too and a "fling" isn't worth sacrificing that wonderful thing you have, but may not completely see.
Maybe I should be a little less approachable and cold. I dunno anymore, I'm still trying to wrap my head around this as I just thought she was a super kid. Live and learn.
