Is there anything wrong with taking pure unadulterated pleasure at
another's misery?  I'm I that unhappy and miserable in my own life that I
like seeing others suffer?  Or is it I just enjoy watching someone reap
what they sow?

I'll be honest, I don't take joy in an other person's misery.  Death, loss
of valuable items, destruction of property are things I don't enjoy
befalling on anyone.  What a person works hard for and earns, I don't want
to see that taken away from them in any manner.  Someone should be able to
enjoy the fruits of his labor without worrying about loss, theft or
otherwise deprived of earned fruits.

What I do enjoy is someone who is self righteous, lazy and a hypocrite
fall flat on her face.  This person, a coworker of mine, assumed a certain job
was hers.  That the interviews were a mere show and that she would get the job.

A little background here.  The place I work operates 24 hours a day, 7
days a week including weekends.  We have four shifts that work 12 hours a
day for four days and then have four days off.  After the four days off, a
shift comes back to work four 12 hour nights.  We never close down
except in extreme cases like a hurricane.  We work through holidays (at a
premium rate) and weekends.  We also work plenty of overtime.  Some times the
OT is voluntary and sometimes it's not.

There are very few straight day jobs that are not management or technical
staff.  One of our sections is straight day 9 to 5 no weekends, no
holidays.  Being a union site, vacancies in this section were filled by
seniority.  For some god forsaken reason, the union agreed to let
management fill those positions by interviewing and selecting who they
want.  Management uses the day jobs as a carrot to dangle in front of
certain people to do their bidding.

My fellow technician thought the job was hers.  She bragged about how
she loved working days.  How her people over there loved her.  See, she was
a backfill for when someone over there was off sick or on vacation.  For a
position like this, management wants someone who is active with
different committees, volunteers to train others and are basically suck ups.  The
unspoken requirement is that they want you to sell someone down the
river and give management all the dirt on what's going on in the work place.
However it appears they want a self motivated go getter, not someone
they had to tell to meet all the written and unwritten requirements.

This person is a church going God fearing person but will screw you
over in a heart beat if she thought it would get her the day job.  When she was
filling in for someone on the day section, it was somehow convenient
that it happened every holiday so she could be off.  She did no one here any
favors.  She gets indignant when you ask her a question or for help. 
She is very selfish.  She'll work a several days in a row of overtime and then
call in sick at the last minute cause she's tired.  She's lazy.  She
won'tfinish her work sometimes because she's done for the day and the next
shift can do it.  She's gotten phone calls requesting something to be done. 
She won't  pick up the phone after she's paged.  She leaves the job she
worked a mess and doesn't resupply what she's used up.

The first time she didn't get the day job they told her it was because
she wasn't involved with any committees and they wanted her more involved
in extracurricular work activities.  She joins one safety committee to
make it look like she tries.

In comes another person and actually starts doing all the
extracurricular stuff.  Not only does he go to the meetings, he actually comes up with
safety programs.  He comes in and rolls up his sleeves and worked to
improve the work area.  He actively lobbied to get new safer equipment. 
He had changes made to things to improve safety.  You could see the visible
affects he had on the work area.  He accomplished things while the other
one just went to an occasional meeting.

Lo and behold, another day job opened up.  The fat lazy worker thought
she
was a shew in.  She walked around here with a swagger, a holier than
though
attitude, a God loves me more than you air about her.  I guess since
God
loved her more none of the heathens would get the job.

I would have loved to be a fly on the wall when they told her she
didn't
get the job.  Right now the word is that she's upset.

I take complete joy in watching this lazy, fat, arrogant, self
righteous
bitch fall flat on her face.  She tried to play a game and got burned. 
A
young go getter beat her to the finish line.

Yes, I take utter joy in her misery.  I'm glad she didn't get the job. 
I
think she got what she deserved.  I guess God does have a sense of
humor
too.