Well, you can’t say I have not tried. I will keep trying, but it is very disappointing. I love to go out shopping at the thrift stores with friends, because each one will find something that the other will miss. I have made plans now like three times with this girl to go and so far it has not happened. I also was in charge of making our boss some “herbal” brownies for Christmas, my “friend” was supposed to help make them and share the cost of them. Well she claimed she was just too tired to do it, as we had to do it after work and we get off at 12:00. She told me to come get her in the morning and we would make them then.
I made the butter that night and came to get her about 8:00 because that was the time she to my house, the whole 45 min. baking time and the whole ride back to her place. How nice of her to come and help me with the gift that was for our boss. I brought half the pan in said to come. She was very tired. I could tell. She said she could not sleep all that night and had just got to sleep and hour before I knocked on the door. I let her get up and get dressed, listening to her complain for about 25 min before I told her she did not have to come. “Well you should have said something sooner.” She went and complained about being tired the whole 30 min ride a nice box to work on my day off to gift them. Our boss seemed very pleased and amused she said she had not had them in years and was going to share them at the Christmas party with our GM. I gave half of the remaining goodies to my “friend” who shared them with another friend from work.
Here is what gets me. We, the three of us, were to share the cost. Like our first thought to get our boss two tickets to a dinner show at $150. Each of us would throw in money to split the cost. We determined our boss did not want to go to any dinner shows. The cost of the brownies was much lower at $45 for the “herbs” and $3.00 for a 1lb block of butter plus $6 for two boxes of brownie mix (used one and a half boxes). I had to go and get the “herbs” with my own money and pay for all the other stuff too. When it came time for them they each bought me a glass of merlot at the bar and gave me $10. I could have got my own drinks I would have like to. I only got $20.00 and two glasses of nasty bar wine for all my troubles. I had to foot more than half of the bill and I don’t even like to eat “herbal” things any more. I know it is not allot of money that I had to cover, that is not the point. They each got to enjoy the product, which was very potent and tasty, and I got nothing but hassle. I even came to find out that my “friend” who was too tired to help me make the butter was out at the bar with other friends until 2:00!!!! WTF!!!! You would think the prospect of making the brownies, something she had said she always wanted to do, would be more exciting than getting drunk at the bar.
I was not even able to go to the Christmas party, I had to work. Everyone who said they were not going went too and had a good time with my “herbal” treats. Needless to say I am giving my two weeks tomorrow. I know that work friends are only that. Work friends. But when those are your only friends it is hard to not get your feelings hurt by the small things they do.
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I only have friends from work. It sucks. They are nice and stuff, but we never do anything that we plan. I am so tired of feeling let down. I will just have to stop even planning things with them. I also am upset at myself for being too giving. I have done favors for them and thus far they have not done so for me. I don’t know what to do except stop. That just seems too harsh. Also this one girl there is very nice, but has too much drama in her life. I listen to all her problems and give her my advice, but she spares little to no time to listen to my problems. Perhaps I am being selfish here; she has had more than a few major problems this year.
No I know what my problem is. Work friends are only work friends. I am reading too much into it because I just don’t have any other friends for now
WTF! Every friend I have made in this city has been great at first, but when things get tuff they are gone. We would hang out like a few times a week and cook new things, sew, go dancing ect. I help them through there problems and listen to there worrys, do costly or ardous favors for them and now…. When I am lonly or upset they are on the the next sucker.
