Hero or villain? Man buys 23 Burger King apple pies to spite screaming child

[avebury]

23. I have a co-worker who occaisionally brings her kids into the office

(plus a spare kid that I have no idea where she belongs and the child of another co-worker although different office). These kids are old enough to know indoor vs outdoor voices. These children are old enough to learn better manners about how to act in public (one is going into 5th grade this year). Now does she come prepared and have the kids bring something with them to entertain themselves? NO. Does she get after them to hold the noise now (after all this is a professional workplace)? NO. Does she even pay attention to them while they are there? NO. This last time, I was on the phone with someone from one of our field offices and had to snap at them to pipe down (as they were running up and down the aisle by my cubicle in full volume). I could not even hear the person on the phone they were so loud. I was bitching about it yesterday (she was not at work) and another co-worker told me that I would have to get used to it because she does that a lot and had for sometime. And this is someone who will do whatever it takes to get ahead, has quite the reputation and does not take criticism well on top of that. This is someone that you do not turn your back on. Fortunately I think that I intimidate her (and that is exactly the way I want to keep things ).