Co Workers/friends Talking About Me Behind My Back. Only I Could Hear Every Word.

Today I was a little late for work. Another coworker showed up about the same time I did. I was feeling pretty sick today and I'm a horrible morning person, so I will totally admit I was not as productive as I normally am in setting up the candy stand. I was talking to my manager (M) about how I wanted to switch to working in candy because the other girl that was working (L) disliked the person who was supposed to be in candy with her and spent all day yesterday complaining about how she didn't want to work with him and she has expressed her hatred of him to several other coworkers. So I thought it would be nice for me to give up the cushy spot in the box office and work behind candy with her so she wouldn't have to work with him.

So, as I am telling M all of this, L looks at me and says, "Have you done ANYTHING today? You have just been standing there doing NOTHING and being lazy." She practically yelled this at me with this horrible mean look on her face. Had she said it nicely or professionally I would have admitted it and apologized but because she was being so rude and unprofessional I got upset and told M that I wanted to work in the box office. I then started crying and told M that I since I was so lazy I might as well leave. She yelled at me and said that I was 15 minutes late (actually 5 minutes late but stood outside the locked door for at least 5 minutes waiting to be let in) and I didn't call so it was my fault. Which was completely beside the point. I let it go.

But ten minutes later as I am sitting in the box office I hear both L and M talking about me behind the concession stand. L was calling me lazy and saying, "Well that ***** did absolutely nothing this morning."

Keep in mind that I work with her several times throughout each week and usually she goes home every single Saturday because her stomach hurts and I tell her that she can leave and I will pick up the extra slack for her. She is constantly negative and complains about EVERYONE and EVERYTHING all of the time. She never has a nice thing to say about anyone, not even her closest friends. She calls one of them a ***** several times a day and says the other one is pathetic (because she has unrequited feelings for one of our coworkers). Other coworkers actually got mad at me because I kept telling the managers to let L go home when she was sick.

Yesterday I worked with L and we had our servers go down and couldn't use the registers. She stood there staring blankly while I helped all the customers who had exact change or close to exact change, wrote everything down to be rung in later, and calculated everything in my head. She also stood there staring blankly while I was preparing the customers food and while one customer started yelling about how long the line was. Her opinion? I was wrong because I should have just let them wait instead of trying to get the line down and get them into their movies.

So back to today. I heard her talking **** about me for about 10 minutes before I snapped and told her that I couldn't deal with her and brought up the incident from the day before and the fact that I had been talking to M about switching with our other coworker because she (L) hated him so much and thought that he was lazy. She then proceeds to tell me that she never said that and that I was making it up (even though two other employees validated what I said) and that she isn't going to fight with me. I then said that she was the one who started the fight and that I wasn't fighting, just defending myself because she obviously had no problem talking about me to our co workers loud enough so that I could hear all the mean and rude things she was saying.

Originally I didn't want to feed into her drama and act like a 12 year old myself, but I couldn't deal with sitting there the whole day listening to her talk **** about me. So I am embarrassed that I reacted. I eventually went outside for a break and called someone in to cover my shift when she continued to talk about me to anyone who would listen (including customers) even though no one seemed very interested in what she was saying.

So I left and spoke to M and the other manager (E) who is also supposed to be my best friend. NEVER EVER work with your best friend. Especially if that person is your boss. I admitted to E that I was late and unproductive and was just upset about the way I was treated and that I shouldn't have to sit there and hear (without even trying) my co workers talking about me in a mean and negative way at work. E said that she was sure she was going to hear a completely different side of the story when she got to work. I'm not sure how that is going to work when I straight up admitted my faults in the situation. I also admitted that I got more upset than I normally would have because I've been very emotional the past week or so.

So whatever... at this point I have been looking for a new job for over a month anyway. I need to get out of that nest of crazy anyway and this I believe is just God's (or whomever) way of telling me that it is time to move on. I think I've needed a push like this for a while as I have become complacent. I know that negativity and gossip happens in every workplace but this was just over the top. I understand she was going to complain about me but she should have at least had the sense to do it when I couldn't HEAR her.

The best part of all of this?

L, M, & E ARE ALL SUPPOSED TO BE BRIDESMAIDS IN MY UPCOMING WEDDING!

(So you can see its not just a situation of co workers being mean to me, these people are supposed to be extremely close friends of mine.)