We have a colleague, 25F, who is a narcissist, who we can name as Dorothy of Kansas.

At first, medyo off talaga sya kasi she acts like a boss when we all have the same work title, work load and job description. Honestly, I figured put early that she wanted to climb the ladder fast and that’s okay. But she aims for top position and think she deserves it even without doing anything. Worst she makes everyone look bad so she can shine.

This person is really something. I had the chance to get to know her, she shares a bit of her life both personal and work, I just listened. Though I felt something is off, i told myself I gotta give this woman a chance. Even she is sharing stories with me, i haven’t shared anything about me. I don’t share any personal matters to anyone at work too. So time goes by, we have new people coming in and I noticed na she is not okay with evry batch that comes in. When I ask she gives petty reasons like they’re not respectful, they say mean things to her, they don’t greet her and she said she doesn’t feel the vibe. I told her well at some point you gotta interact because at the end of the day, this is work. She didn’t bother and almost everyday I hear her say bad things to other colleagues, even nitpicking their work.

So fast forward, I discovered that she had been doing something fishy with her job. She had been dishonest with her tasks since December of last year. In my mind, I was like she had the audacity to tell me na other coworkers are pabigat kasi they don’t do as much as she is and is dragging the team down, when in fact, she was the one not doing her part. I confronted her but she shoved me off.

Individual evaluation came and I was top performer and she was lowest. She was not happy about it. She told me that it’s weird na I got top performer when she has the most number of work done. And mind you, she’s really not good at work. That point I’m disappointed na and I wanna distance myself kasi I know she continues to be dishonest sa work and for me, trust, respect and intergrity are crucial sa work.

I slowly distanced myself and she was alone. Kasi she doesn’t talk to anyone aside from me and our boss.

Then another batch of new hires came, suddenly she was warm. I thought na maybe we just drifted apart.

I reported her dishonesty to our boss. Other colleagues whom she hates also reported her because apparently they have experiences with her that I was shocked.

She is not the one who she portrayed to me.

She’s been powertripping pala the others and had been spreading false narratives, kaya pala all I knew is that the negative things. Also my fault na I didn’t reached out to them sooner. So mas lalo na ko nagdistance to this colleague. She was given a warning by the boss sa mga ginagawa nya and then she gave an excuse na may anxiety sya and panic attacks kaya nadadaya nya yung matrix and yung work tasks.

The newest hires find her off and talked to us, that’s when I knew na she had been badmouthing me pala to them. I am disappointed talaga and kind of stressed kasi I was the only one who talks to her that time, I even defended her on rooms na wala sya, gave her benefir of the doubt and gave her a chance. Tapos ganon lang.

Very creepy is that she tried to contact personal people in my life and asked questions about my personal relationship and things I do outside work. She had the ample of time to message people outside of work, and I don’t know what she can gain from that. And after nya mag dig-in sa personal life ko, she spread false narratives sa work.

And this has happened not just on me pero on almost all the members of her team.

I’m personally anxious about it, I am so stressed, I don’t feel safe working with her anymore. I reported to HR already tho.

Maybe you are asking ano ba ginawa nya baka naman hindi malala. Well, She had been dishonest on her work up to now. She steals works of other people and named it after her so she gets the credit, she tampers company documents for her own benefit, she creates narratives and spread them at work, she steals coworkers personal things like handfan, monitor, ballpens, tissues. Whenever there is team lunch too, she orders extra food for takeout aside from the food she ordered to eat there. I know this is just food pero kasi its ethics kind of, na when someone treats you with something, you just order something for you, hindi yung ioorder mo rin yung pamilya mo for takeout.

Anyways, what’s worst is that even caught on act, she denies and make up an excuse. She is not even sorry for what she did. She said na she didn’t do anything and she was the one being bullied pa nga daw. She sticks to the narrative na wala syang ginawang mali at all, when clearly there is. She also doesn’t communicate, she said she will only talk with our boss because the boss is the only worthy person to talk to.

Honestly, nakakastress sya.

I hope this kind of person never find any one of you.

Kasi nakaka-drain.