I read this morning that Putin has a nemesis... made me realize that I don't really have a nemesis. I kind of wanted one for a moment, then realized that that would probably be a bad thing.
Do you have a nemesis?
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No. I'm not confrontational enough for that. Even if I dislike someone they will never know it.
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No!
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Self-doubt and self-criticism - totally my nemesis and kryptonite all rolled into one!
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My LO's nemesis is hiccups
I can't say I have one.
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I guess I'll be the first to say....kind of? Someone at work hates my guts, apparently because she also applied for the last two jobs that I've been hired for.
Life is too short for that nonsense, so I try to ignore it at all times. It gets a little tiring. She's super obvious.
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I did in high school ! Every time I would date someone this one girl would date them after me and even asked one to prom ! I hated her but she seriously had no idea. I actually referred to her as my nemesis! So silly now !
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Hahaha just myself!
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I did in pre-school! A boy, named Lyle.
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My MIL!
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Husband's ex GF thinks of me as her nemesis (and creates fake Facebook profiles to try to friend me)... But I don't have enough time or energy to reciprocate the hatred.
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Nah, I'm not important enough to have a nemesis.
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@Sophia: omg I can totally relate. There was a lady at my first job who was hired as the office manager who would make pointed remarks at me all the time. She seemed to want to compete with me all the time, even though I barely ever spoke to her. She once tried to get herself invited to a trade show that I was going to, and everyone was confused as to why she thought she would get to go. Then I was cleaning out a common inbox and found an email from her from before I was hired... it was her resume for my job!! Turns out she had applied for my job and never even been interviewed... after I started, our office manager left and she got hired as the office manager. I think she thought it was her stepping stone into my job.
The crazy thing was that she was in her 40s and I was exactly 22 years old. She was completing her college degree in marketing at night at the time. I had just graduated from college. Props to her for being so driven for what she wants to do... but it really scared me as such a young kid! She really really hated me! Once I wore an outfit one day and she showed up the next day in a similar outfit, and made a snarky comment about it. The very catty girl in me wanted to point out that my outfit was from Banana Republic and hers (as she so clearly pointed out) was from K mart.
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Now that I'm hugely pregnant, shoes that have buckles or laces are my nemesis. Oh, and pants. Yep. Pants are the enemy.
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@MamaMoose: Serious? that's crazzzzzy..
@highwire: He probably had a crush on you! Boys at that age are mean when they like you.
I don't have a nemisis.. but my ex-SIL is crazy jealous of me..
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I had a nemesis at my old job for 1 year. She was my own assistant, of all things....and she was awful. I think she thought she should have MY job, and I should be the assistant. We would constantly butt heads, and since she had been there longer than me, sometimes her friends would ask for things that she wouldn't pass along to me, which would cause even more problems.
She also had a lot of personal problems and was angry and bitter in general, so I had to deal with that every day, too. She'd literally come to work mad about her husband doing something and would start slamming cabinet doors and muttering under her breath and generally scaring all the kids.
She would constantly tell the teachers I'd said things that I hadn't---or she would deny them things I was happy to do for them.
Thankfully, at the end of the year, she got transferred---and I got an AMAZING assistant after that.
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@MamaMoose: that's crazy!! I'm so convinced that facebook turns some people crazy! I deactivated my account because Dh's high school Gf tried to friend me! She's a nutcase!!
I don't have a nemesis!!
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I have a work nemesis, she is a total bully and has made her way through everyone in our office in the last 4 years as the victim of her bullying. I stood up to her a while back and now she doesn't give me any guff, but apparently she snarks about me behind my back all the time. The funny thing to me is that everyone is wise to her nastiness and no one sympathizes with her so when she gets nasty about me they all stand up for me.
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Not anymore. There was a girl who completely ruined my life (for a year). I went through therapy and I am completely over it now. She is still someone I'd rather not ever see again.
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@mrs. wagon: OMG. I had a very similar situation when I was in my mid twenties! I was one of the youngest to do what I was doing, and the only other woman I worked with developed a creepy obsession for me . . . she was in her 40s, and started dressing like me, doing her hair and makeup like me, making up lies (seriously, right in front of me!) to make her life seem more like mine . . . it was so bizarre! Being part of a small group, we worked together a lot . . . sometimes she would just stare at me and tell me how pretty I was. Awwwwkward. When I wasn't busy being creeped out, I felt sorry for her.
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Yes. Co-worker. Grrrrrrrr.
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Yes. DH's ex. She's not so much my nemesis as I am hers. She has recently told the boys that my baby is NOT the boys family, is NOT their brother and is treated better than them. (Uh... he's not even born yet....)
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@MsLipGloss: ugh. So creepy. I felt sorry for mine at first, until I figured out her whole plan to steal my job. (obviously wasn't a real possibility, but still!!)
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@MsLipGloss: oh gosh that is so creepy. Not quiet the same but one of my co-workers follows me everywhere. Even if I go somewhere for lunch that I KNOW she hates the food there, she'll still go there with me and buy something even though the store next door has food she likes... like why??
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Laughing because at work we have a joke "nemesis program" going on. We pair people up to be nemesises (Nemesi?).
The nemesises tend to play practical jokes on each other. It's fun. I cooperate but don't have one of my own.
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@mrs. wagon: Evil trixy trolls are the worst!
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@prettylizy: I worked in an office like that too . . . only after I stood up to the asshat, even though she continued to say nasty things about me behind my back (but usually within earshot, passive agressive ninny), everyone else was so afraid that she would refocus on them that they would NEVER stand up to her. Which to me is just ridonc, but whatevs, she knew I would always stand up to her and that kept her at least partially in check until I left.
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@.twist.: That is just so . . . wrong! I guess we should just be happy that we know who we are, and that we aren't looking for someone else's identity to morph into?
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@littlek: @MarieJ: The saddest part is that hubs and I started dating when we were 19 have been together almost 10 years now and the most recent facebook friend request occured about 6 months ago. MOVE ON!! And this chick is currently KU by some random dude she went on a few dates with (we think she probably got KU on purpose to trap him). She be crazy. I often remind hubs that I rescued him from a life time of insanity ; )
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@.twist.: oh because THAT'S healthy for her boys. UH... people who bring their kids into their BS really piss me off.
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@mrs. wagon: People are so weird! I just can't imagine...I feel like hating someone that much would take SO much energy and work. Maybe this is one aspect in life where it's good to be lazy?!
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No, just myself and my self doubt about things.
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I do not have a nemesis (that I am aware of), but I did want to chime in and say that this is probably my favorite board question yet. I also find Putin to be endlessly amusing, with his shirtless horseback riding and renditions of Blueberry Hill. Of course he has a nemesis! His absurdity wouldn't be complete without one.
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@MamaMoose: She's probably the most frustrating person on the face of the earth. Those comments are just the tip of the iceberg.
It's really sad.
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@Anagram: I could have written this!!! (apart from the teaching related bit). It's so difficult to manage someone like that and having to remain professional... I did it for 2yrs and then I ended up leaving that company anyway.
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Kind of. I don't really reciprocate her craziness, but my FSIL hates my stinking guts. She treats me like garbage.
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Cake and ice cream!
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I had a coworker nemesis, but as soon as we got a new girl in our department she moved on to tormenting her...I guess I didn't give her enough reaction? My boss even mentioned how thick my skin was for dealing with her for so long...ummm I'm sorry you noticed and didn't intervene...where was his spine, I know she's scary but come on he's the boss?
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@Mrs. Chalk: Ha! I so agree. That man is interesting, that's for sure. And, I suspect that most of his nemeses are not...well, around anymore, if you catch my drift
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@.twist.: That is really sad . . . thank goodness the boys have you to set their normal compass back to a truer north!
ETA: The really sad part is, if they are not already, the boys will soon be old enough to recognize her anger and bitterness.
I can't say I have one.
It's really sad.
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