The work boys are brutal. Brutal!
Ok, so, CCL drives everyone crazy. She drives the boss crazy because she whines about petty things, she instigates arguments on purpose, and when he says to build something that she doesn't want to build, she conveniently can't find the materials for it and states that we're out. (So then we order more and two seconds later someone finds the materials that she said we are out of. Case in point-- today upstairs assembly needs 30 black actuators. Boss man told CCL to make them on Friday. CCL said we were out of actuator housing. We all went home for the weekend. This morning Boss man asked me to make actuators, I went out to get the materials, and lo and behold, there was a big box of actuator housings right on the shelf where they were supposed to be. Derp.)
She drives the boys crazy because all she will talk about are her kids (and how much they don't love her,) her cats (to three guys and a girl who all dislike cats,) and religion (in a room full of people, NONE of whom agree with her religious views.)
So. CCL gets Mondays off. Today I'm sitting there putting together the actuators she was supposed to do on Friday, and the boys tell me that they have a plan to make CCL "change." CCL is a 62 year old woman who's been set in her ways for 62 years. She's not going to change.
Anyways, whatever. The boys' plan is, we all stop talking to her and ignore her and be short with her until she starts behaving. Peer pressure, you know.
And I... I can't. What if it was me? What if I was a 62 year old woman with no friends, who's kids dislike her, who has no one for company except five cats, who came to work only to find out that everyone at work dislikes her? I told the boys I wouldn't do it. They said it was nice to feel sorry for her and all, but all her problems are self-inflicted. She was married and had friends, she divorced for no other reason than because she wanted "independence." She has spent the last 20 years trying to live her kids' lives for them, to the point of trying to name their children for them. She chooses to bring up topics that she knows no one else enjoys. So yes, true, all of her problems are self-inflicted. But it doesn't keep me from pitying her.
So now I am stuck in a moral dilemma. Do I go along with the evil plan to force CCL to behave herself at work, thus making the work environment more suitable and enjoyable for everyone? Or are CCL's feelings more important to me than everyone else's happiness and work satisfaction? At what point do one person's feelings outweigh everyone else's annoyances? At what point does everyone else working together to delete their annoyances equal just everyone else ganging up on one woman to bully her?
I already told the boys I wouldn't do it. At what point do the boys get mad that I'm not going along with it and start bullying me too? Even if they don't start bullying me too, at what point do I feel sorry enough for CCL to tattle on the boys to Boss man and end their fun, and potentially end their jobs?