Karma

I was chatting with a friend tonight whose wife works for social services. Her department has to liaise with XN who works in the health service.

She phoned him a couple of weeks about a case they were working on (it's to do with children's services and their work is cross-organisational).

She came home that evening and complained to her husband (an ex colleague of mine) that XN was incredibly rude and spoke to her with an "how dare you call me" tone in his voice. She said that she thinks he's an arrogant pr*ck and that the rest of her department in social services can't stand him because of a couple of other arrogant and rude things he's done.

She knew I was with XN but knows nothing about the abuse that I suffered so she isn't prejudiced by any previous knowledge. In fact, the 4 of us did go out socially twice so she thought he might be more friendly when she called than he would have been ordinarily.

Twelve months ago, XN won a £15k leadership award for being brilliant.

In the last few months, he was moved out of the office he shared on some pretext whilst he was away on a course and into an open plan office which he will have found incredibly humiliating. And the (very senior) woman he shared an office with has said that she thinks he has a personality disorder.

I have also heard from another source that he's not very well liked at the organisation and that he's shown poor anger management at work towards his colleagues.

My therapist thinks that his organisation have a problem employee on their hands but are avoiding facing up to him because they moved him out of the office whilst he was away rather than waiting til he got back.

I know some of you will say, who cares, let him go, what does it matter, and you're right. It doesn't matter, I am letting him go and I don't care all that much (I'd be lying if I said I didn't care at all).

However, it is rather gratifying to hear that he's p!ssing people off left, right and centre. I can see that eventually they'll either force him out or he'll have to leave because he won't have any friends left there.

Part of me feels a little sorry for him but part of me is thinking...the karma is coming...

All that therapy is clearly paying off...not.