I'm not sure if my perception is shifting or if I'm imaginating it all, or why...

But I'm becoming more and more certain that everyone within a driving's distance of me is utterly insane, in the bad way, lol.

Today, I was told that due to my schedule that I wouldn't be able to work all that often. But that my manager "went out of her way" to secure the entire week of my fall break for me to work as a favor to me...

I was ever so slightly non-plussed.

I don't mind working. I might not even lose it if you entirely destroy my fall break, but don't hand me shit and tell me it's sugar. It insults my intelligence and convincingly makes you look like an ass. This is from a Manager that is more or less the inspiration for Dolores Umbrage in Harry Potter. She never stops smiling and when she does it's only to slaughter with a disapproving "cluck-cluck" of her tongue. I've witnessed her doing great destruction and horrible torments with a grin on her face.

I'm not sure if you would call her normal, but she is desperate to wear the guise of normalcy. What she did to me stands out as a "favor" compared to how she has treated some. She especially does not seem to like my friend. She doesn't like me, but I've given her no cause to be able to express it, besides, the second she does, I'm gone.

Her complaints against me have all been utterly and painfully her own. My hair is dyed black. She informed me that I had to let it grow back to it's color or have it corrected. I informed her that that was not the case and that it was not the concern of my employers. She disagreed, and then I offered to ask a higher authority considering it's legitamacy, which she quickly let it drop.


Why can't people like her let people like me alone?


What is behind the drive and ambition to dominate the extraneous facets of my life?


How do all of you deal with someone in a position of supposed "authority" that tries something similar as above?

-Sin