number one son

I wasn't very happy at work on Saturday. A certain colleague suggested to Martin, whilst I was on my break, that we should leave the 'mother/son' relationship at home. This riled me. From the start of my work at there I made it clear that at work any issues anyone had with Martin they should not come to me, and vice versa. Martin does not call me mum at work. Their nickname for Martin at work now is 'number one son'. Nobody else has a problem. Me and Martin have a bit of banter, but I don't think that I treat Martin any different to any other of the youngsters that I work with, I have a bit of a laugh or rant with all of them. I think I know what this woman's reasons are for the comment.

This particular woman has always looked after Martin, when he has his moments at work she has always been the one supporting him, I had never met her before I started but I always considered her Martin's surrogate mother, and always been appreciative of her keeping an eye out for him.

It's funny but I thought she would be the person that I would be most close to when starting, but it has turned out to be the opposite. Anyway, I am thinking the reason for her comment is maybe a bit of jealousy that Martin and me get on so well. Martin replied to the comment with 'me and mum have got a very close relationship, we are best friends as well as mother and son'. It upset him a bit, I think. How can we possibly pretend that we are not mother and son at work?

I will carry on as normal, they knew the relationship when they employed me, and if the counters manager has a problem I'm sure she will talk to me. But i don't think she has, afterall she is the one who nicknamed him number one son.

I have a day off today and i am having a pre Christmas clean. My workload over Christmas is immense, I am working many many hours of overtime at sainsbury's and would also like to try and do as much transcript work as I can, so january should be a good month to hit those sales.

My flu has left the building and I am feeling much better. My appetite has retruned but my weight is still falling, but I'm not too miserable about that.

My quit didn't last, but Martin's did, he is now on day 8, well done son, I am proud of you, I certainly know how hard it is. pssst, he has a new girlfriend, she is beautiful and is a non smoker!
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