I met my friend from a previous job applied for the same job I have and she got the job. I was so excited for her since my job has a better income than her previous job and the benefits are amazing. But I realized she’s a nightmare to work with. We work at a school and we’re assigned to different classrooms. So, as you could imagine for any jobs there’s many different personalities.

The classroom I’m in the teachers are more quiet and reserved which is good for me because that’s how I am. One day my friend came into the classroom at the end of the day and everyone in the classroom were all quiet and doing their own thing. Out of no where my friend said out loud “I can’t do this I have to get out of here” she then stormed out. Everyone looked at me confused of what happened and I was absolutely mortified. After that I told everyone to have a nice day and I walked after her and said “what the hell was that??”. She told me that the women in there give her bad energy and she can’t be around that. I told her that I’ve been here for 3 years and they are completely fine.

Another thing is she’s so rude behind a lot of my coworkers back. This one lady I worked with last year we got along so well and she was so caring towards me. My friend knows we have a great relationship and she’s so horrible about her. She would tell me that she has dark energy, she’s a bitch, and would tell me that she’s copying her because she sees that she’s wearing makeup and nice clothes and now she wants to do the same. I told my friend that from working with her she always wore makeup and nice clothes. Then my friend would go on to say that she’s copying and now she’s wearing black to copy her. That’s the most delusional shit I’ve ever heard. There’s another coworker she’s saying the same things about. She would tell me that she’s a bitch because she didn’t say hello to her and I said “that’s not true she’s really nice”. She then said that she’s intimidated by her because she’s so pretty and how girls like her get intimidated by her. I said “well I’m pretty and she’s not intimidated by me”. She then told me “well you know it’s different” I guess that means I’m ugly??

This morning I saw one of the women she talks so negatively about and told her in front of my friend that she looks beautiful in her pink sweater. My friend had no choice but to agree and my coworker was so happy to get a compliment. My friend thinks everyone at work is intimidated by her because according to her she’s pretty and people see that as a threat. I really wonder how people at work perceive her because she’s so mean to so many women in the way of talking behind their backs. It makes me so embarrassed I have worked at my job for 3 years and built work relationships with all these people. Just for her to criticize women based off their appearance behind their backs. She generally thinks all of our coworkers are intimated by her beauty and she would even say “girls like that are intimated by me since I’m such a pretty girl”. I don’t know what to say to my friend I’m just so upset by the stuff she says about people like she’s only been at this job for 2 months and she’s already doing all of this.