Ok so since my last post I have been busy busy, trying to get a reasearch paper done and my CEO resigned suddenly and I got given some extra tasks as a result of the job reviews of which the one actual work friend I was close to here at work, took offence and felt that as she had the title manager they should have come to her and so I got dumped on and informed from now on she would only converse with me as a professional and collegue and no longer as a friend. Ouch!!
I was gobsmacked and more than a little dissapointed by her attitude. I can understand she is unhappy, she is very much a status person and maybe felt that this impinged on her status as several of the tasks she would be under my delegation, but to haul me into a room and toss her toys out of the cot at me and then say the friendship is over 2 seconds after giving me a t-shirt she brought me back from San Fransico (she had just spent a month travelling overseas with her partner) I feel is a bit raw.
Do I politely giver her back the T-shirt and say that I cannot accept it as I feel it has not been given with the same intent it was bought for me in light of her discussion with me yesterday?
Or do I just shove it in the bottom drawer here at work , because I know that I will never wear it now. To me it symbolises the dissolving of what I considered a friendship.
