omgosh

My coworker actually quit. After 20 years of working as a receptionist, getting paid shit money and getting talked down to by the doctors, she finally quit. Wow, I am proud of her and everything but at the same time I’m worried because she’s in her 50s and she’s going to have to get a new job since the doc paid her off the books (like he does for the rest of us) so she won’t be getting anything for retirement or pension or nothing. She needs to start looking for a new job asap :/

I hope that doctor that spoke down on her, Dr. K, got in trouble for it though, because the boss doctor, Dr. O, really valued my coworker as an employee.

Dr. K called me this morning on my way to class asking me to come in wednesday and thursday. Thursday and I have a dentist’s appointment that I can’t reschedule or else i’d have to wait another three weeks for the next available day and I told her that and she was actually begging me to come in lol good job lady you put this on yourself.

I’m going in for half the wednesday though, right after my final Calc II exam, and with the extra $$$ I make that day I will go have a shopping spree at Victoria’s Secret because I want to buy new underwear that makes me feel like a woman.

I don’t even know what to do with my coworker

We’re both receptionists at an eye doctor’s private practice. I’m almost 19. She’s around 50. She’s like a second mother to me but she treats me like I’m her friend, which I don’t mind at all, except sometimes it’s a little over the top but I’m okay with it because I feel really bad for her. She has high blood pressure and suffers major work-anxiety

This is without a doubt my boss’ fault because he was a fucking douche. He gave me really bad work-anxiety when I first started working too, and they used to tell me that he was worse. He’s loosened up a bit though, became more decent I think, ever since he had a daughter. But Elsie, my coworker, has worked for him for 20+ years. That many years working for a douche at a shitty wage can drive anyone crazy.

So, Elsie has been married four times. The man she’s currently married to cheated on her last Ramadan (the irony) and she’s been having major trouble with him recently. She threw him out of her house and then after a while they began talking again, she invited him over and stuff and he’s stays the night and what not. Whatever, I told her it was good they were on better terms because she really loves him and just the added stress would really harm her, I think.

BUT TODAY

TODAY, she cornered me like a mouse in the back of the office where no one could hear us. She just started venting to me about everything. She’s Puerto Rican, her husband comes from a traditional Muslim Egyptian family. She changed her faith for him and she was like, to me (I am also kind of supposed to be Muslim) “God forgive me but I really can’t stand these Arabs right now.” (Some Arab patients had come in just before) and I raise my eyebrows and she starts telling me about how 

her husband is planning

on going to egypt to marry

some other woman

and I’m like WTF? He can’t do that, he’s already married to her so that’s illegal and she’s like

no

It’s not illegal in Egypt

A man can have multiple wives

And again I’m like WTF? Alright let him go and divorce his disgusting ass. Why the fuck is he doing that if he already has a wife????

She starts telling me about how

• His father wants him to marry an Egyptian woman
• A woman who can have kids (Elsie went through menopause)
• His father wants his father wants his father wants

Pure rage swept through me. I wanted to yell at her to forget him but I know it’s too hard for her. I know he’s the only person she has. But I ask her if she needs him; I meant financially but I think she thought of the other ways to need someone. She didn’t answer but tears welled up in her eyes and I grabbed her hand I said Elsie please don’t cry, you don’t need him, all you need is a friend. I don’t why these old couples want to have kids anyway; not only can Elsie not do it, but it’s fucking dangerous if a man his age tries to reproduce too! And yet Elsie persisted, she told him she was willing to have a baby in vitro, or adopt a child. There are plenty of Egyptian children waiting to be adopted. When she told me this I was shocked, I can’t understand, she’s too old, has already had five kids who are now adults (with her past marriages), too heavily burdened with stress to raise a child and she was wiling to do it for him this stupid fucking idiotic bastard. 

The worst part is that he told her he doesn’t want a divorce! I want wrangle this guy so badly, WTF motivates these people?! She told him, thank god, that she would divorce him and he called her selfish!!!!!!!!!

I would not even look twice at a piece of scum like this guy. I don’t know what drives Elsie to humor him but I think it’s loneliness. I think she needs a friend, badly, but looking for it in this piece of shit motherfucker will only make matters worse for her. I also think she does it for sex (you’re OLD!!!!! STOP IT!), in which case he’s easily replaceable (vibrators are a girl’s best friend)…

Later in the day, some dude walks into the office with a bag of Dunkin’ Donuts, someone’s lunch. He asks for Katya (my other coworker in her 20s) and Elsie directs him to her. Then she turns to me and tells me

that

this guy

is Katya’s ex

who cheated on her!!!!

And now he brings her lunch everyday!!!

to apologize!!!!

And at that point I’ve had enough douchebaggery for the day and I give this dude the worst stank face I can muster as he walks out. Like I look at him like he’s a piece of shit under my shoe and that’s the worst I can do in the office or else I might’ve spat in his ugly face

‘I hate men’ Elsie says and you know what

I fucking hate them too