Detective Horn was right when he said this job would eventually make me bitter like it has some of the other dispatchers.
I don't know about anyone else, but with the past few jobs I have had, I have noticed a difference between working in a large workforce and a small one. People pick on you less (when you're new) in a large workforce. Co-workers and bosses have more to do apparently and don't try to keep themselves busy with coming up with petty excuses to nag at someone.
In a small workforce, I've always had more trouble. The bosses either grew to dislike me in some way and usually from hearsay of jealous co-workers that were afraid the 'new girl' would surpass them in something. Or the co-workers would simply try to spark some kind of enmity. And you notice this most when you're new because the people either feel uncomfortable because you ARE new and they don't know what your personality is like or because you do appear to be successful and they're threatened by that.
I really wish I could just plain take an extended break from working at all and maybe I'd get my positive work morale back, but I can't afford it right now. I'm almost positive a break from working at all would make me a better person overall because I've become really tired of the "retaliation" complaints.
