Cheryl
San Francisco,#2Author of original report
Mon, March 05, 2007
Ms. Woodward was completely oblivious to the hard work and efforts of her coworkers, was narcissistic, self centered and expected preferential treatment from her supervisor. Ms. Woodward expected me as her coworker to help her do her job as well. The supervisor foolishly accommodated the "I want to be the department princess" by providing Ms. Woodward with a gift on her B-day and spreading the word for the department to provide her with more gifts. I came into the department to find this new employee had incredible amount of support with B-day balloons and a plant allergy given to her by the law firm as a gift. It turned out it was from Ms. Sainsbury, her supervisor. Later, when Ms. Woodward was having severe difficulties of showing up for work, Ms. Sainsbury gave her many, many opportunities to improve. Most employees would be fired without question. Ms. Woodward was being treated like a spoiled princess who was dumping her personal problems on me s a co-worker, while later accusing me of harassment after she was terminated. Ms. Woodward, in fact, tried very hard to get me fired as if I was the source of her problems at work. She sent me an e-mail letting me know she was coming in to the law firm to meet with the consultant who was conducting an investigation about the employee dispute. Ms. Woodward intended on getting me fired. I was also accused by Pillsbury management of having a l*****n affair with this kook, by a Mr. Patrick O'Leary. Ms. Woodward felt free to call him after she left the law firm, to complain about me "harassing her family" in reporting her criminal activities to her grandfather. Mr. O'Leary spoke with me in a phone conversation very unprofessionally, and accused me of being in a relationship with Ms. Woodward. That accusation would have most accurately been asserted in the case of Ms. Sainsbury who had provided extraordinary preferential treatment of her little princess who was a lousy legal word processor, did a poor job, didn't show up to work twice and who had dumped her personal problems on a hard working employee. I was completely innocent of Ms. Woodward's accusations she shared with Pillsbury's management in an hysterical fashion. There is no law that states one cannot turn over e-mails of illegal credit fraud evidence to one's grandfather, or share e-mails related to fantasies of arsenic poisoning. I did it only because Ms. Woodward was lying about me and I feared she would implicate me in her criminal activities. I can't really comprehend the warped, political agenda any manager could have in preferring such a lousy employee just because she had a good sense of humor at times. Some of these law firm lower management people run their departments more like social clubs as if the work is just a side thing.