why burn the bridge?

One of my co-workers is retiring at the end of march after working for the city forever. From all that she's said, she hates working for the city as much as I hate working away from home. But our jobs are about helping people, that's what we do. We get people the help they need to fix their home. For many people, we are their last, best hope... without us, their house gets condemned and they are on the street and the city has another vacant pile of a crappy eyesore.

Yet this co-worker... as her end day approaches she becomes more and more hostile. She is actively resisting and sabotaging another co-worker's attempt to learn her duties so that the next person can get trained. Every attempt we make to streamline stuff so that when we take over her duties (actually, we've already taken over at least 60% of her job just because she won't do it all anymore) we will have an easier time of it, she walks up to one of us and chews us out for doing it wrong... only to come back a few hours later to tell us oh, maybe we were doing it right after all... but SHE wouldn't do it the way we decided to.

But the worst thing is that she's doing a flurry of nasty "right to cure default" letters to people who are only 2 or 3 payments behind. Now, these letters are the last step before foreclosure. It has not been our policy to pursue foreclosure FIRST. Our policy was always to try to work with the client to find a way to get them caught up instead of foreclose on them. But her letters to them have been downright nasty, on top of the fact that she sent some of these letters to people who had already had a deal worked out!

Dude. I know you are retiring. I know you haven't liked your job. (though personally I can't understand why it's so bad, she hasn't done much work in the past few years, mostly surfing the net). But do you have to be so belligerant to the rest of us and to the clients? March 29 can't come too fast.

Our city is out of salt. Public works claims some is on order and they expect it any day. Believe it when I see it. Apparently the midwest has some sort of salt shortage too. By the way, our city is on the river. As in, river VALLEY. Half the city is in the valley, the other half is up the hill. A pretty big hill. Just because I work for the city does not mean I think it's all that. I think most of the city management are dumbasses.