working man's blues

Well the word is out. The person who(m?) everybody despises, who is normally regulated to one department, is going to start training in my department at the end of September. I had heard on Tuesday during an end of the day quick little meeting but now the word is OUT, so every hour or so somebody would come up to me with a chagrined look to ask if "I had heard the news." There was a definitively somber mood in Chemistry today; nobody talked or laughed, everybody whispering furitively, certain supervisors holding clandestine meetings. For a minute or two I started to get worried that some of us would be getting the boot. But the best part is the department this person is normally in, at every opportunity throughout the day various people came up to me with this smug looks for having escaped the work-torture gods to tell us to "Do everything we could to drive her out." I wonder how long it takes to become the most hated person in any job? I personally have been this person, I was probably the most hated person at my job in Hawaii, well most hated female person anway, but it tooks years of sarcasm, yelling, and general bitchiness for me to climb to and maintain such a coveted position (for there can only be one per office, like the office slut or weirdo or something). But I think the hatred for this current person is far more than I ever could have achieved, I mean people DREAD & LOATHE the mere IDEA of working with her. Lucky for me, I am so completely unmotivated that I never bothered to learn the job they are going to train her do. So LUCKY LUCKY me, I won't ever have the displeasure of training her. WOOOHOOOO!!!! A silver lining in my otherwise craptastic week.