Is it jealousy, or just in my head?
First, let me start off by saying I am not an attention seeker, and I'm really just confused about just how "normal" my situation is.
When I first started working at Subway I never noticed things until my friend Linda (co-worker) and me started becoming very close. She began telling me my boss (the store manager) was jealous of me b/c the owner sometimes make comments like "when I get married again I'm going to marry someone short and cute like Alicia (me)" and I think it's b/c she's just old. I don't even have to put on makeup and guys flirt with me at work all the time in front of her. She even got upset when she found out I was getting a raise, and didn't believe it. Not that i'm trying to brag or anything, but I tend to get noticed by everyone wherever I go, some good, mostly bad attention though, and franky it's very frustrating. I guess it's because I am so different, I don't really know.
So then we have someone else who is obviously jealous of me, because she asks people at work "Why does sam (owner) like me so much? she onviously wants my assistant management position. Another thing is after I dyed my hair a deep dark brown she copied me, and made me look like an ass, because the manager said 'oh did you guys have a twin day at the hair salon?"
I also have had other employees who I've worked with who have made comments that make me think they are jealous. Is this normal? Should I think it's funny? Should it bother me? It honestly makes me think I will never have any true friends. I feel like people will make me afraid to be sucessful in life b/c of how they treat me. For instance, in school I was always put down by teachers and classmates and it made me focus on nothing, which made me drift further and further away from my talents. College is helping me, because my teachers actually like me. People just piss me off, I feel like there is not one real person alive, they all are just a bunch of fakes who I'll never feel like I can be my laid-back and relaxed self around.