Today at work. I broke down. I have a colleague who is particularly rude and entitled (call her Jo Anne for now). On two occasions she said benign things that annoyed me. One being that I wasn’t attending a school fete due to child care and she said “well no guesses who won’t be there.” Then said pointing at me “you because you despise these children” on another occasion she said something like “nothing works in my room since I’ve been kicked out of the old one I’m gonna have to blame Jess (me)” I turned around and said “no it wasn’t my fault sweetie, I wasn’t the one who kicked you out. Our manager was. I said I’ll take any room and she gave me yours” but it became a catalyst to making me feel emotional and crying.
A colleague who I don’t know hugely well and was Jo Anne’s ex best friend (Sadie) said “you didn’t seem pleased at that comment Jo made” so I said “actually no I wasn’t it’s constant crap and it’s always non stop with her, she said something this morning, I offered to help with her work before and even then she still is rude for no reason.“ she then explained why their friendship broke down ans said it’s just that time of year where all teachers are burnt out and sad. I later apologised for being a hormonal mess.
Later on sadie was talking to a colleague, I think re telling the story, the colleague was looking over at me (I felt) and having a giggle, again I can’t be sure they were talking about me but as he was looking over now and again I just felt they were? I also heard a couple of words said to me that sounded as though they were repeated.