I feel like all I do lately is post about issues..

I have a really annoying and difficult coworker. We were both hired at the same time, although she started 5 days before me since she didn't have a job. Our career levels are the same with the same years of experience, education and we receive the same compensation. We also have the same title, but we both have different areas that we focus on.

She is constantly bossing me around, telling me what I need to do and when I need to do it. My work is always completed as soon as I receive it, I have worked hard on building professional relationships within the company, and I think I do pretty well here. I don't have the same visibility as she does because instead of running around the floors gossiping, I actually sit in my office and get work done.

She is always talking, making plans, discussing how to do things better, but she doesn't seem to be actually getting the work done. Everything we do is very deadline driven, so it has to be done, and as a result, I end up finding a lot of her work on my desk because she's "sooooo busy (she usually adds how much more social she is than me), she didn't have time to do it". I'm starting to feel used and like her assistant.

I also know she backstabs and gossips a lot. I hear it all the time whenever she's talking to someone. I have to be out of the office earlier than her and so I know she stays behind and gossips and bitches to our boss. Throughout the day the team will agree on doing something and then by the time I come in the next day, it has all been changed because she stays behind and chats with him for an hour.

We are hiring someone new on the team and since a lot of what she will be doing is related more to what I do, I will be doing the bulk of the training. Since this is coming up, I have been getting training documents ready for her and just this morning the annoying coworker told me that I need to stop and we will be using what she has already created. WTF! She is extremely condescending towards me and everything I do, she's not even my boss yet nothing I do or say is ever good enough for her.

To make matters worse, we have a mutual friend and this friend let me know that no one is actually friends with the coworker any more not only because of her superior attitude to other people, but also because apparently she gossipts and backstabs so much that no one wants to be around her.

She is one of those people who says "I say it how it is", when really that's just her cover up for being a giant bitch. My boss and I were talking about our pets and she said "f*** I hate pets, people who have them are such losers. Sorry, I just say what's on my mind!". Yesterday I was wearing new boots and her comment was "I guess they're nice but anyone who buys designer boots is just f****d in the head. Just my opinion!". More comments involve "I would rather die than be as skinny as you", or "if I had to live where you do I would stab my own eyes out then kill myself". How about you just STHP!

Ugh. That was longer than I thought. I just wanted to get it out somewhere, I'm stuck with this job until the new year so I needed to get this out. I can't go to HR because we are HR lol. Thanks for listening!

Anyone else having a not so great day?