help YOU help you

No sooner than I hit "publish post" on my last entry, the phone rang. And the ritual of being asked for free legal advice continues...

I feel badly for her. I really do. She has this on again, off again relationship with this guy who broke up with her after 8 months because she's a Jew and a Democrat. (have you ever heard anything so stupid?) She's having trouble at work because the office slut wants to sleep with her boyfriend and so she keeps filing false harassment claims with HR in attempts to get my friend fired. (yet another reason not to date people from the office...)

HR's brilliant solution to this problem is to confine my friend to her office and not permit her to go over onto the other side of the building where the slut works. Okay...stupid fix...especially since it's affecting her ability to meet deadlines when she needs information from the other side of the office and can't get to it. And to make matters worse, the whole situation has given her a couple ulcers.

Like I said, I do feel badly for her. And, while I'm not a violent person, I want nothing more than to head over to that office and beat the crap out of this little twit who's torturing my friend. But it's not my fight.

I spent the last 20 minutes trying to convince her that she's been a good kid, played by the rules, gone through appropriate channels to correct this situation. It's not working.

Yes, she's being harassed. Yes, she's a victim. I know a little something about this myself... And so I am completely justified in saying: STOP ACTING LIKE ONE.

Do something - anything. Quit. Fight back. Go to the head of the company - he's a family friend and all. Do you really think that he'd let this continue if he knew what was going on? But do yourself a favor and stop acting like a victim.

I stumbled over a blog the other day where this girl got her heart broken...and as revenge against all men everywhere, she claims to have started picking up men in bars, bringing them home, only to stab them in the balls or tazer their genitals. (No, I have no idea if this is f0r real) Now I don't advocate this. At all. It's more than a little extreme, completely twisted, wrong and just plain illegal.

But I suppose my point and the moral of the story is: when the people who are supposed to protect you aren't, a little action is warranted. Help you help yourself. You'll feel a lot better once you do.