Drama-llama co-worker, more of a WWYD ...

[Fecklessdizzy]

She's not in my department but turns up regularly with much sighing, eye-rolling and general huffing and puffing. She keeps this up until you ask what's the matter, then says ... I'm at the end of my tether/ It's so unprofessional/ Why are some people so awful/ I can't go on ... or some such and then won't elaborate any further!

It's doing my head in. Why start the conversation if she doesn't want to tell me the story!

How would you vipers deal with her ...

She's a walking, talking, passive aggressive facebook status!

I'd just not ask her what was up.

Ignore all the huffing and puffing, since she's only doing it so you'll ask what's wrong.

I'd ignore her completely. People soon go away if you ignore them!

get in first and bore her with your woes till she realises you are taking the piss

or

ignore ignore ignore

I'll give it a go - trouble is, I am horribly nosey

What actually is passive-aggressive? ( too lazy to google emoticon )

The FB status was the first thing I thought of too!
I would laugh... Sorry, highly unprofessional but things like that make me laugh, I really can't help it!

I'd just say yeah we all have days like that and then get back to my work without paying her any attention. If she doesn't want to elaborate there's nothing more to say is there. She might take the hint, she might not, but it kills it stone dead. I can see why you find her annoying though.

Never, ever, EVER ask her what's the matter. Ask her, every day, if she's getting a cold or something.

Get an asthma inhalor and a book on exercise and pass it to her

"Sorry i assumed your breathing was an issue with all the huffing? " :)

thats passive aggressive

She is asthmatic, and has excma, and irritable bowel syndrome ...

I shall practise smiling brightly and saying " Ah well, they'll all be dead in a hundred years " Which was one of my Grandad's stand-bys and used to drive me nuts when I was a teenager.

Can you imagine what her facebook is actually like if that's what she's like in real life?

Go to the loo and get a coffee or something when she turns up. Lift the phone and pretend to be on it ( keep your finger on the button so it doesn't ring though)

If she won't tell you and you have to ask, tap the side of your nose and say" I'm not surprised, I heard something too" and refuse to elaborate:)

I've had this before. It's insanely annoying.

Ignore her, and be really cheery as if there is no problem at all. My ex colleague pretty much sent me into a full scene from Oklahoma!

"OH what a beautiful morning......, I LOVE my job, I truly couldn't be having a better day"

Also if you feel you can't ignore her, wait until she has almost puffed herself out, finally ask but in a way that she can't answer.

"What's wrong you seem unhappy, (no pause) silly me it must be all that work you have to do, I'll let you get on" then pick up the phone or leave the room for a minute.

Just dont ask her she will take her huffing elsewhere I work alongside a drama Llama and it is fucking exhausting i just dont really speak to them that much now i only work part time and I enjoy my job but this person was making me dread it

Love it. Trouble is, I'm in the Visitor Centre so I'm a bit of a sitting target as I can't skulk off in case some bugger rifles the till, but I'll definitely give the insane cheeryness a go!

or break into song I loved the thought of somebody breaking into some musical theatre

You wouldn't say that if you'd ever heard me sing! ( Think cats being strangled ... )

ask her if her supervisor knows she's there?

would chase her away she could huff and puff elsewhere,

Get her mobile on your mobile, block your number and call it from under your desk when she comes in:)