Impetuous1

I usualy keep things locked down inside my own head with strangers and acquaintances. With friends and relatives, for the most part I say about 50% of what's on my mind. However as I get older, and care a lot less what people think of me, I find myself speaking my mind more and more nowadays. No matter who I'm speaking to. Which has gotten me in a bit of a bind at work.

Usually I'm very quiet and reserved at work because I don't want to get involved in office politics and because I'm a very dedicated worker. I like to do a good job and keep things on a superficial level socially. Well, this one woman has always made little comments to me about how short I am (though she's only about three inches taller) and how quiet I am and that she forgets that I'm there. So after her last comment, I finally had enough of her judgements and decided to tell her a little what I thought of her. She is always grumbling about work and using any excuse to get out of it. She is also very social with other people so uses that to her advantage, even with the supervisor, to get out of doing harder work. As a result of which, she has more time to be social. More difficult work then gets dumped onto the rest of the team due to her selfishness while she justs sits there hogging the easier work. I just asked her if she thought I was quiet because I didn't complain as much as she did. I didn't mean to say it. It just slipped out of my mouth. So now, since that day she has barely said a damn thing to me, which is now a bit uncomfortable. But you know what? I don't regret saying that at all.