C onstant B ack S tabbing- the poisoning of the well

lastlaugh submitted 223 days ago

I had a very public career. I was a hair dresser for a well known show for the last 14 years. I created the 'vanity arts department' along with two other very wonderful women, wardrobe and makeup girls and all was creative,loving and peaceful until the makeup girl got pregnant and left the show.
My department head JAL who is a known as a major LIAR and two facer" brings in her current BFF. 'CAW'
from the minute CW stepped into my space, I knew she was going to be trouble. that was 4 years ago.
the reason I knew she was trouble was that she had gotten fired from another show the year before for trying to do to them what she did to me....I saw her in action over there and the head of that department who had been CAW"S friend at the time was able to ward her off in the end ...
I had no such Luck.
CAW fits the perfect description of a psychopathic,bully.Jekyll and Hyde.
It started off slow....CAW can be so charming and her words and lies flow from her tongue like sweet wine to a dehydrated alcaholic...she lied and bamboozled everyone,including the Host of the show whom she was sleeping with.
even me at one point.I even thought i was calling her friend....her son is a victim of Münchhausen by proxy,she is constantly using the poor me routine to make everyone sympathetic to her.
Like I said it started off slow...she would say "I'm gonna sign us in and out" and it got to the place where I never signed one of my own documents or got my own money vouchers because she was signing everything for me.When I asked her why I couldn't she would scream and yell and say in a crazy voice because they are watching you, they are watching you....I would say who? who is watching me? I am protecting you she would say evilly...she had such a way about her...she convinced everyone around me that she was the Church lady, but she plotted my demise.she was very jealous of me ...I look younger than I am. i am funny and friendly and giving and loving...if I told a joke she would run out of the room and tell it as if it were her own joke, if anything happened to me on the weekend and i opened up to her, she would tell everyone so my history was out in the studio. She would rifle thru my things i even caught her going thru my purse and my journal for which she said oh...i was putting a voucher in there....She was a horrible racist...she would say things to me about her take on race and "other's" and laugh in a maniacal way...she told me she was a Shaden fraude and that she got pleasure from other people's pain. she would FUME at my ideas and always always say you don't know what it is like to be fired do you? do you?
If I said oh there is so and so...i really like them, the next day she would be walking with them arms linked and they would stare at me and laugh...
I always thought I could handle anyone, but i became so nervous and alienated in the end. I just shut down. People who once (thought) were my friends now would not look at me...she even laughed at what a fat pig her BFF JAL was and how stupid she was, yet she was stepping up to take her place...she always went to the top floor...something i have never seen the need to do, as I am an artist and just like to work and adored my "Models"
I finally told one of the producers in October about her and I said just leave it for the record ,i don't want to make a big deal out of it...Now who's the idiot...Me.
her BFF left in early december to get a Uterus overhall and left CAW in charge (CAW gives the impression that she is in charge and can handle everything. She made JAL weak and dependant on her. that is her game)(Hence her poor son who she has kept sick for 20 years.!!!! with fake illnesses )

...suddenly I felt so 'under the microscope' nervous, bad dreams,panicky even because I had no one to go too I could not go to HR or my Union whereI would be known as a whistle blower...Even my Models weren't responding to me as they once had. The only person who really knew what was going on was the Wardrobe girl who started our department with me....she knew as well as I and the people on the other shows in the building who CAW is. They were helpless as I was since C onstant B ack S tabbing is like a secret society. If someone is let go no one ever mentions them again. Everyone is scared to lose their high paying jobs with an over load of health and security.
i thought I had carved out a career for myself. I loved my Job. I was so proud of myself and took pride in my work.
Well that all ended when a week before I was fired JAL calls me from HOME (she had not been there for three or more months) and says...are you in a quiet place .... she was real cold.... I say yes....she says 'I have witnessed you doing suchand such...I was like what? NOOO when?????? you have not I told her ! No way When?
I thought it was a joke. Then goes on to make up lies....i knew then that CAW was filling her head and her sick body with lies about me. I told CAW what JAL had said and about the phone call just to see her reaction. she looked blankly ahead (she has those big round crazy "runaway bride eyes" whites all around and is on medication for bi polar and panic disorder and all around craziness)
The following week at work I was a mess internally. I tried not to let it show but a person can sense when they are the topic of other 's conversation I am very sensitive...On Wednesday one of my girls leaned back and i accidentally touched her with a curling iron...not metal mind you those blue ionic ones...it touched her skin for one one thousand of a second... like nothing....but I ran and got burn gel just in case....ten minutes later CAW comes in all wide eyed and bossy and says why didn't you make a health report to security...I thought what the hell? it was a nothing, a touch, and none of her beez waax why was she watching me anyway besides it was the first time I had ever done anything like that in my decorated career...I left that night so upset.
well two days later out of the blue i get a phone call from JAL who has now returned to work from her four month vacation and says...the call times have been changed for next week...I said oh? who is sick?
She says the producers want to try out someone else...I couldn't believe it...CAW had won...I say okay...I need to come in and get my stuff i started that room it was my salon, my office my studio. she says really really mean" no bring your keys to the gate and your badge"...in other words they would not let me go to my own cabinets! It was like NAZI GERMANY!
I said JAL I am gonna need a truck...she yells into the phone bring a truck then!!!! I was stunned to say the least after all the years in the building my very very public career...my name rolled on the credits just like the Producers...
I called her back in less than two minutes just to ask why...and CAW answered the phone! in a sicky sicky sweet voice she says don't blame JAL it was the producers....I then told her that I knew it was her who had poisoned my well and that the only good thing for me was that i didn't have to see her ever ever again and hung up.
To say I got sick is an understatement. it has been a month now and I am house bound I have cried and cried humiliated. to think that not only can't I work on my own show...but i was banned from the building!!!! for what? other shows love me. Whenever I am off they would hire me. Now I am never ever going to be a hairdresser again. they took the love I had for my Career and threw it away. just like that, two fat old jealous mean girls. Truly this is only a rough draft of this story...there is so much more to tell...
just when i think I am getting better something else happens like my husband goes and gets my stuff this week and it was thrown so rudely in a box and the box had my name on it I could tell it was CAW who tore apart my room because she forged my signature on the box. in other words from her signing me in and out for the last years she took me down.
the rumor mill is flying too! from what I have heard they told everyone that i had tampered with documents!!! that I have burned girls hair LIES ALL LIES!!!!! I feel betrayed and paranoid suspicious and a mess. I have lost almost ten pounds and wonder if I will ever be happy again.