I’ve got a colleague I’m actually quite friendly with, but honestly she’s quite negative and it’s starting to drain me a bit. There’s rarely a day where she’s just like “yeah, all good” it’s always something, whether it’s work, feeling ill ( literally this one is the most frequent- surprisingly never ill when she is about to go on holiday), not sleeping, or something else going on.
On top of that, her main job is doing client presentations, and she completely spirals every single time. And I mean every single time. It’s not even occasional, she’s doing them weekly at this point. The morning of, it’s constant messages about how nervous she is, how she can’t do it, etc. I do try to be supportive because she is actually good at them, but hearing the same panic play out over and over is honestly quite exhausting.
I get nerves, I really do but if something you’re doing every week is still causing that level of distress, at some point you either need to properly address it or question whether it’s the right fit. Because being someone’s emotional support system for the same issue on repeat is just draining
On top of that, her main job is doing client presentations, and she completely spirals every single time. And I mean every single time. It’s not even occasional, she’s doing them weekly at this point. The morning of, it’s constant messages about how nervous she is, how she can’t do it, etc. I do try to be supportive because she is actually good at them, but hearing the same panic play out over and over is honestly quite exhausting.
I get nerves, I really do but if something you’re doing every week is still causing that level of distress, at some point you either need to properly address it or question whether it’s the right fit. Because being someone’s emotional support system for the same issue on repeat is just draining
yes she had time I might add (spends half of it on tic toc during work hours) which I can’t prove but she does I’ve literally seen it on my kids account! So I called her out on it yesterday asking why she put xyz on there when she had time to do it! She was like I don’t shirk work 
erm of course you do hun all the time 
it’s always the same common denominators who do it and get away with it too! Hopefully she’s less likely to do it now she knows I’m on to her but who knows she’ll probably get away with it tho as she’s the bosses favourite 
so she blatantly looked at it and decided she couldn’t be arsed to deal with it as it meant her having to do some work, it’s the same lazy coworker yet again! Other day we were short staffed and the ones who had less work were told to help me and did they? Absolutely not! Just an all round 
I believe karma is a thing, and I also believe my store manager who has no idea what we do is the one putting in this meeting. I'm very happy that she is doing a 
