Office Politics

I am struggling with my coworker/landlord and am trying to placate her and the other renters and am feeling rather defeated after a day of disagreements. I just want peace and minimal change, and of course that is not what is happening. I have decided to let go of the $250,000 embezzlement drama of my former office (the woman has never been punished) and the role of the administrator in taking even more of my money when I gave up and left the place in the year before I left for Ecuador. I went to a lawyer, who was pleased to take the case but wanted $450 an hour for his services, so I gave up trying to find justice.

I left my former employment to join Sharon, and initially there was just the two of us, and everything went smoothly. I let her make the decisions and take the responsibilities and I was happy. While I was gone there were all sorts of changes and now there are seven clinicians in the office and there is need for more organization and I need to step up and help get things moving. I am clashing daily with Sharon and wondering why it is that I find myself in this place again when I wanted so desperately to be away from office politics.

It is always good to come home and talk to Eric, who is very dispassionate and logical about the problems at the office and always has a reasonable solution and I felt better afterward, but still slept poorly and dreaded returning to work the next day.