I said I wouldn't blog about work... I don't want to be dooced, afterall.

Ok, the job thing has been logged with the correct people... so now I just have to wait it out.

But for today, I am playing Captain Peacemaker. See, there are two sides to my office: sales and support. Both sides think they are the most important. When in reality we are actually greater than the sum of our parts.

One side (my side) had been kvetching loudly about a certain member of the other side. Except she was within earshot and overheard what was being said. Now if it were me? I'd march over there and tell them that they all needed to get a set of balls or just shut the hell up. How Canadian are we?

Oh, let's just bitch about it and hope that someone higher up fixes it for us.

Anyways, because I'm a super secret spy and know who to talk to and when... I found out that this individual had overheard, had been upset and near tears.... and that my side of the table had been the cause.

So I went into my boss' office, told him the scoop and said that we had acted unprofessionally and we need to have the rules laid out. I mean, this isn't junior high people.

He did the right thing and called her into the office to apologize to her on behalf of us all because we acted unprofessionally. He explained that it was out of frustration and said sorry. Which puts a band-aid on the situation, but doesn't fix it.

I don't know what would fix it actually.

Maybe a team building session where we are all made to run three legged races and hold hands and sing Kumbaya.