On Dealing With Office Drama: Keeping Your Cool in the Workplace
Kristel August 11th, 2007
Before anything else, apologies for the late post. Lauren and I had a three-day hiatus riddled with office drama. Not a great way to start a week, obviously. But apart from the colds and the dampened social lives because of the storm, no pun intended, things are pretty much back to normal. Anyways, on with the article. ^^
In every workplace, there’s the office “bitch”, “witch”, OR “drama queen.” She craves for attention, and she gets it by speaking extra-loud, creating nasty little rumors or simply just “bitching out”, especially against other girls. She picks her targets carefully. Most of the time, she picks on the people who she thinks won’t fight back. She has her “minions”, who can be as equally annoying as she is. Birds of the same feather, have the same attitude problem.
She makes you think of those high school bullies. She goes around with her posse and they start talking about you, loud enough for you to hear. You would think that parinigans would stop once you graduate from high school, but she’s stuck in her own little high school and she’s dragging you along with her. You try to explain things to her rationally, and she lashes out, gives character attacks and completely off-tangent remarks that you start wishing for the world to swallow either one of you up, just to get out of that mess.
Well, whatever you do, don’t bother confronting her or talking to her in a civilized manner. If she’s constantly acting this way, then that could mean that she has a lot of issues. And you wouldn’t want to be in the receiving end of an unasked-for rant. Since your little office princess or office drama queen is living in her own little world, she would never consider her actions as being wrong. Even if she does realize she just made a huge mistake, don’t bother hoping for an apology from her. It will never happen. She’s not logical. It’s a no-win battle.
The best thing you can do is to ignore, ignore and ignore some more. Drama Queens love being noticed. If you pay attention to your office drama queen, the more she would think that she’s someone important. Remember, insignificant things remain insignificant until you choose to notice them.
First few days of ignoring the office drama queen might be pretty difficult to do. The more you ignore her, the more she’ll try to get your attention. Expect her to be a little more annoying and a little more irritating the next few days. After a while, she’s bound to lose steam and find someone else to bother with her insecurities.
Never trust her. If she offers the truce, accept it and be civil but do NOT share personal information or any secret you may have that she could use against you in the future. Even if you do end up as friends, you already know her true character. Secrets are not meant to be artillery, but with her, you can be sure that everyone would know your secrets in a span of an hour or two after a fight with you.
Any experience with office drama? Hit us up people! 
Yeah, you’re bound to run into one of those, at least once in your adult life.
I feel sorry for these people. The way they act just shows how insecure they are and how meaningless their own existence is. Try having a decent conversation with them, you won’t get anything.
So yeah, ignore ignore ignore. They’re simply not worth your time, not while you’re busy being fabulous!
It’s sad to see that people never really grow out of high school. :/
‘di naman siguro weird that I (a guy) enjoy reading your articles noh? nyahaha.
Anyway, I added you guys sa links ko.
Keep it up.
Doesn’t have to be a SHE really. In my case (or my friend’s case), the bitch was a HE.
That happens too