What would you girls do? I really need to vent, and would be interested in tactful ways of dealing with my situation.
There are 3 of us secretaries at work. I am the newbie and have my own office, the other 2 are joined at the hip and share another office. At morning tea time the 'designated spot' is their office. They virtually ignore me and I feel pretty uncomfy sitting there. There's another morning tea group but I don't want to rock the boat by suddenly going there, plus I'm shy.
Then when one of my colleagues is on leave suddenly the other one will go all 'best buddy' on me, even gossiping to me about the other. Later, when both staff are back together I go back to being the spare wheel.
They are very negative, gossipy, destructive types and I'm not bothered to be their friend, but I try to be polite as I have to work with them.
Both of them are on leave at various stages next week, so obviously they're going to try their two-faced friendliness again and want to share gossip about the other - but I'm just done with it.