a newly discovered major peeve

when a power-hungry co-worker who is a major control freak tries to take away your power to speak for yourself.

i was just in a staff-meeting during which we were joined by a pretty important person in the hierarchy of this entire institution. the pretty important person recognized everyone in the room except for me and this other girl, so she introduced herself to us with the obvious intent of having us introduce ourselves to her in return.

before the other girl and i could begin introducing ourselves, hawknose jumped in, and she began introducing the other girl to the pretty important person. in my mind, i was all wtf?!

and then just as she finished introducing the other girl to the pretty important person and was about to introduce me, i interceded and began intoducing myself to the pretty important person. and yes, that meant i had to cut off hawknose before she even got three syllables out about me.

nuh-uh. *wagging finger* no one's talking for me. i speak for myself.

but even after i introduced myself, hawknose still spoke up and lamely added that this was my last week. she didn't know or realize that anything was amiss. she just wanted to talk and impress pretty important person.

hawknose, hawknose. what is wrong with you? get off your high horse.

sorry. i'm now biased against her because of inside information i now have about how she's attempted to expand the scope of her official duties and has gotten all anal and completely like a control-freak. i can totally see that now.

so that's my new-found peeve. i will not let others talk for me when i can plainly speak for myself.