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That’s Crazy
husband when he would call. We all went to a club after work where
Shannon had arranged for the supervisor's husband to meet her for a
rendezvous. Things began to become pretty tense between her and
her immediate supervisor.
There were also obvious signs of Shannon’s behavior that should
have been questioned, such as the fact that she befriended another
lady just to sleep with the lady’s boyfriend. We would gather at
Shannon’s place. She would have her ex-boyfriend and current
boyfriend there at the same time. She would end in one room kissing
and doing who knows what with her ex, while her current boyfriend
sat in the other room, straighten out her clothes and walk out like
nothing ever happen. Women can be playas too and she was smooth
at it! We would all just laugh. We could not understand how she was
able to manipulate the situations.
To shield Shannon from being terminated, I met with her
immediate supervisor and requested that she work under me. At the
same time, Jerome, Shannon, Diane and I became four peas in a pot.
Diane had begun to date a brother who eventually became her
husband. Shannon became friends with Diane’s future husband,
Joseph, and had established a separate relationship with him outside
of Diane. I knew this, and it did not feel right, but I never spoke up
and told Diane.
I also knew about Shannon's jealousy of Diane because she would
always comment on Diane's looks and tried to get me to feed into
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