Just when I thought things had calm down, they get weird again.
She started a few Facebook page with a photo spread our owner had been bugging me to get for over two weeks.
I don’t really know what it means except to suggest that he (our owner) and she are still in contact on some level and may explain why he continues to build a case against me – perhaps with the ultimate aim of getting me fired.
He’s been bitching about the quality of our company website, and suddenly decided to make it photo intensive.
He comes to our staff meetings and complains about how horrible the photos are, picking on individuals, and how unprofessional it looks for our staff to be using cellphones to take pictures when other media has people taking pictures with cameras.
Again, I get the feeling that someone is pumping him up, perhaps again with the idea of hiring someone to act as a staff photographer, a position we have not had since we started using digital photography.
I can’t help but wonder if this is somehow tied into her and her role as the official photographer for the Virgin Mayor. Is this a way our owner can justify bringing her back (God knows why she would want to if the pay is just as shitty as it was before).
This is pure speculation. I have no concrete evidence that the owner plans such a move or that she is being considered for the position even if he is.
Yet the fact that she started a new Facebook page dedicated solely to her photography and her art is suspicious coming on the heals of our owners ranting about needing better pictures.
The fact that she posted a photo series there that the owner has been pushing me to get furthers these suspicions.
The fact that she came down to my town to do the spread also bothers me, a kind of dig in the ribs to say she can do what she wants whenever she wants and there’s nothing I can do about it.
I would think she would be happy where she is if not for some of the posts about people putting her through hell so she can help them get to heaven.
Even if she’s angry at them doesn’t mean she’s any less enraged at me.
In her thinking, I may well be a perpetual threat, someone she can rely on to remain an enemy, a scapegoat she can blame for all of her troubles.
My posting a poem about many artists never seeing fame in their lifetimes may have seemed like a provocation, when it was merely an observation.
It is possible she doesn’t pay attention to what I post these days, although the photo spread she posted from my town suggests otherwise, especially because the owner has been pushing me to do it.
I argued with the owner, my boss and the salesman J to get her permission to use those photos for our site, since they were as good and possibly better than anything I could have done.
The owner got very strange over this, as if he didn’t actually expect me to notice her work let alone mention it to him, perhaps uncomfortable with the fact he seemed to know about her pictures before she posted them.
He ordered me to go take my own pictures and then left in a huff.
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