Had a rick daris like scenario with some co-workers. Thought I would lay out all the facts, my response, the results and how things are going forward.
I am in charge of supervising and evaluating a handful of people. I share this responsibility, and an office, with a colleague as well as all the workers. These are all women.
One day one lady comes up to me and says that two of the other ladies are yelling at each other. I come over and they are yelling at each other. Then they both start acting weird and turning to me to explain why the other one was being unreasonable. I listen and smile and nod for one round a piece, then say everybody get back to work and leave. I then go get the other lady I work with and tell her what happened and asked her to handle it.
Apparently they were mad at each other because one of them was late to a staff meeting and she didn't like the look the other lady gave her, then the other one said the first lady was always late when she brought food to the staff meeting, then the first lady said "you're nuts", other lady responds with "you aren't even a real Christian", other lady calls her "two faced" then I walk in and SCENE.
Anyway, this week the colleague I work with is going to bring some Qtips to this week's staff meeting and go over the QTIP acronym "Quit Taking It Personally." I will sit back, smile and wait for the next round.
