DISCLAIMER: I love and enjoy my staff, I truly do. I realize there will be good work days and bad. I know small employees--well, employees of all ages, really--hit roadblocks while training, and before you know it, they are over the hump. I know each stage of training has its positives, as well as its drawbacks.

But. May I say (and I absolutely hate saying it), I am finding it very difficult to enjoy the employee who is approaching two years with the company. If only there were a store that sold more patience. All day long the employee shreds through my existing supply, with the incessant and repeated requests for off-limit items, items that the office is out of, and/or items that don't make any sense at all. The squealing, the screeching, the whining, the fussing, the overall shrillness totally cramps our usual laid-back office style, throwing the entire company off kilter. So much of our days lately are a Communication Workshop gone wrong.

K.Lo is so obviously struggling to do her job all on her own, to make the rules and force the rest of the office to follow them. Probably she is vying for position of Manager, ambitious as she is to advance in her career. Clearly, this end is not possible, and so we are at a crossroads, the Junior Staff and I.

I understand her position, I can see her point of view. I am just, quite simply, annoyed by it, or at least by the way her discontent is coming across. One day soon, maybe (hopefully), she will show up to work satisfied, once again, with the job she's got.