My toxic, crazy coworker demands that I listen to everything she has to say, all because she has a college degree and I don't.

But after dealing with her for so long and listening to all of her awful comments, I finally put my foot down and not only embarrassed her in front of the entire office, but also put her in her place in a way that she truly never expected, resulting in her quitting her job purely out of embarrassment.

Here's what happened. Okay, so this happened many years ago. When I was a secretary for an up-and-coming

attorney, it was a small office, just the attorney, me, and the office manager. Now, I never finished

college, and the office manager never tired of holding her degree in business over my head. This person,

who we will call Nancy,

that's not her real name, managed to work her college degree into almost every conversation.

Also, anytime I questioned one of her office policies, such as not having a drink at my desk,

or not wearing slacks or not playing a radio in the office for background music, Nancy would

explain to me in the most condescending

fashion that according to her education, such things were unprofessional and counterproductive.

One of Nancy's weirdest policies went right against the stated orders of the attorney we both

work for. As a law office, we sent out a lot of correspondence. Legal papers, claims, letters,

bills, it would all be mailed out because their

office was fairly remote and we weren't close enough to downtown to have a runner take in the

documents for the court. We had a postal machine to print out the exact postage on each piece

of mail and it was graded by Wade according on how much each envelope weighed on the postal scale.

We used both number 10 envelopes and

manila envelopes to mail things out. Now, anything under a certain scale, if it would fit

inside a number 10 envelope would only cost the equivalent of one stamp. If it was more than

three or four pages, we would mail it flat in the manila envelope, which because of its

thickness and size, would automatically require the postage

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