| Subject: Have you ever felt like this? |
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Eric
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Date Posted: 18:57:24 09/30/01 Sun
I'm hoping you guys can provide some insight into some feelings I'm suddenly having at work.
I work with a relatively small group of people. For close to a year now, within that small group, I've been part of what you might call a "Clique", a real tight-knit personal/professional relationship with an even smaller group of about 5-6 co-workers. People get hired every now and then, but they don't generally work with us directly so I've never felt threatened by "outsiders". Until now.
A new guy just got hired on. He's going to be working directly with our clique. He's a nice-enough guy, I want to like him and so far I do. But I suddenly feel "threatened" by the guy. For example, he's been around for two weeks, and he's already been leaving "suck-up" notes for our boss, stuff like "I'm having a blast!", and also leaving such notes for an influential member of our group. He writes these notes when the rest of us are frustrated as hell with our boss at this point (a big part of how the circle got so tight...which I realize he doesn't know, probably). It just so happens this influential member of our group he's leaving these notes for is a female whom I've grown especially close to. That probably has a lot to do with my feelings, being that I feel I've earned a certain spot within our circle, and I have this odd desire to want to "protect" that spot, not to mention this woman, even though he is attached, leaving nothing to protect her from in that sense. I also am not too fond of the idea of somebody coming in trying to become part of this group without really "paying his dues" if you understand what I'm saying. In roughly a span of a year and a half that the rest of us have been around, we've kinda earned some "priveleges" in how much freedom we can take and so forth. We can gossip with each other about what a jerk our boss is. And he's coming in saying he's having a blast. I guarantee that feeling will wear off soon, but that's another discussion. And there's the always the thought that he's after my job, although we're equal. But again, I've been there for 1.5 years, I have "seniority" over him if you'd call it that.
Am I being paranoid, or a baby, or all of the above? What are your thoughts? I hope my rambling here has made sense.
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