As some of you know I have a new job....yeah!!!....but I also am dealing with a coworking who seems threatened by me. He has worked there for 6 years and has gotten comfy with the way things were. I on the other hand was told by the boss..."to correct any problems I saw and to basically do my job without direction".....being the outstanding alanoner I am....if there aint no leader....dont stand in my way....haha!  Needless to say..I have gone at it with gusto...I love a challenge. I have cleaned places that have not seen a damp rag in years....swept up inch thick dead bugs...cleaned windows...tossed out mouse nibbled papers and raked mountains of leaves. I am having fun and the work is starting to really show. At the same time I am learning their way of doing paper work and getting to know what their customers are like.....actually some of my customers from my past two jobs have shown up....some of them I have known for 15 years...they are friendly faces that just make my day. Unfortunately my coworker does not like change and has complained to the boss that....I am changing things, I dont feel that cleaning constitutes changing things. My boss asked me to try to get along with my coworker, to try to understand where this coworker is coming from....and I have tried....I really have. But this man has made it absolutely clear he doesn't like me, and has purposefully tried to make me look stupid in front of customers and treated another new employee and myself like children. I had had enough and was getting really pissed. But I began to use my alanon tools and started to try to figure out what to do. Do I run to the boss......no. Do I confront him....what good would it do. Do I just walk away?  I wasn't getting any answers on my own.... just more confused......so I started to say the serenity prayer ...over and over and over....and disecting...the lord prayer too...until I just couldn't say them any more.   Well the next day started out the same as all the ones before...the accusing looks, the cold shoulder, the down right rudeness.......and I just let it go and was having a great day. Later that day I stopped the boss and told him about a few plants we needed and he brought up the coworker and the fact that he had again complained about me. The boss told me not to worry about it and that he thought I was doing a great job and that the coworker just needed to get over it .....and then asked me what I thought....I just smiled and said " I pray alot about stuff like that and for other people"....he just laughed and said...."yeah, sometimes you just gotta do that".....and I continued on with a great day......and just kept on praying. I am starting to learn that sometimes doing nothing but praying and waiting 'til HP is ready to deal with the stuff, I need to leave alone, is the best I can do.