Oh. My. God.

Welcome to a new ongoing feature in this blog that I'd like to call "My Old Boss is an @sshole." Don't get me wrong - she's a nice woman and I like her. I liked working with her. And, I genuinely respect her. But sometimes she makes me NUTS.

My stupid computer died... crashed so hard that the guy at the computer store actually felt sorry for me. All data is gone, until I'm ready to pay a fortune to see what can be retrieved. Every photo I have of Tater Tot, Halloween Parties, my cats, funny stories from Beantown, my old work archives, the resume I've been updating... all gone.

I was really freaked out. And, in the midst of it all, Dr. Boy and I had a KNOCKDOWN right after this happened. Easily our worst fight ever. We both went to bed thinking we'd broken up.
So, I emailed the Boss and the Assistant to let them know they wouldn't be able to reach me, and all my work to Wrap Up This Job is GONE. And, then I flop into my self-imposed, I-hate-my-stupid-boyfriend exile on the aerobed in the living room under my new gur-juss Cath Kidston comforter and try to sleep. Visions of lost data dancing in my head.



Ugly, yes, but it matches the Ugly Wall. On sale bien sure, because they closed the NYC store.

This morning, my phone rings at 9:24 a.m. It's the Boss. The call is maybe 2 minutes of good morning, sympathy, and accusation. I was stunned. For some crazy reason, she is convinced that I have fried my work computer. You know, the one for the job that I don't have. The one I turned in last Friday. As requested. Then, I check my email. An hour earlier, she mailed me this:


Is this the [office] laptop? I thought you had returned that as we had agreed????

No, hello. No, I'm sorry. Several of my coworkers don't want me to list her as a reference. They think she's unstable. But, she's well-known, she was my Boss. How could I not list her? She's fired people and given them glowing references. But... this is the 3rd time this week that she has forgotten something huge and assumed the worst about me. I don't know if I should talk to her, or just be done with her... she hates confrontation, and she has been so strange since this all went down.


I don't know what to do.

Things are better today with Dr. Boy, but still v. tense. Still, he took me to Best Buy, and I bought my new zippy computer for $450. Made my freakin' day. And, I had a great meeting with a headhunter yesterday. Feel really good about the job market. Until, I realized this morning that my reference is nuts. Oh, god... what to do?


For now, I'm going to focus on my new computer, which I love. My friend EKK's new baby girl (congrats!) who was born today. And, my new, totally impractical, red glitter, on sale for $25 shoes.





XOXO,

M