Drama Queens
By Keiti | August 23, 2007
I’m not sure what it is about me that attracts people who have a knack for creating drama where there is none. I despise needless drama - you know, the kind people create out of absolutely nothing. I’m a reformed drama queen who prefers to keep to myself. What other people do is really none of my business. Basically, I’ve learned to keep my nose where it belongs.
(That’s not to say I don’t like knowing things - I just like knowing them and not using them for anything except to toss around in my head.)
So, with sitting around doing nothing while I’m waiting for my badge, I’ve been trying to think of things to keep myself busy. I’ve been taking books with me, but there’s only so many hours I can sit reading before I start going cross-eyed, so yesterday I took a deck of cards with me. I ended up playing a couple of hands of gin rummy with someone else who was waiting, but mostly spent time playing various versions of solitaire. No betting, nothing nefarious, no being overly loud, just quietly keeping myself amused in the breakroom with a deck of cards.
I get in to work this morning, and one of the girls I’ve kind of made friends with quietly tells me not to play cards in the breakroom today. I said okay, figuring that some big-wig was going to be making the rounds. Over cigarettes later, I discovered that after I left yesterday someone (who she referred to as a “nobody” - people like us who are strictly temp workers and have no bearing on anything) had complained that playing cards in the breakroom was unprofessional.
*sigh*
I just don’t understand what it is about people who simply have to create drama where there is none. I just want to be left alone to do my job and go home. With as many hours as it looks like I’m going to be working (I’ve been told 12 hour days, anywhere from 5-7 days a week) I don’t want to have to deal with that crap, too.
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