Dear Mathwhizchick,

Thanks a lot for trying to help me out. She has insisted that I gave her my pc and LN access codes though I told her she has access from her PC to all docs, to bossie´s e-mails and that if somebody wrote to me during the week I will be absent, they will get a reply e-mail stating they should contact her and send me a copy. She insisted she didn´t want to eavesdrop but in case she needed access ... So I have given her my codes. I´m gonna go to a book shop to look for a book in LN to see if, since maybe she will access to my LN from my pc, I can encrypt some e-mails as well as my agenda so that she can´t read them and if she tryes to that I get a message so that when I come back I know she has been eavesdropping.
I don´t want to look for another spot since pay is good, work not too stressful, other colleagues great to work with and some social benefits. If it weren´t because I have to share office with her, it would be the perfect job.
A thousand thanks once more for letting me vent.
Have a great week-end!!

Thank you all for your replies.
I have only job related info in my pc but since I use the LN agenda for writing down everything I do every single day, I don´t want her to read it because the less she thinks my skills are the safer she will feel and less trouble will give me.
The LN files I have are regarding important info I get from deskdemon and other secretarial pages. I also have a file where I safe all e-mails that I send on behalf of bossie and are read by her so that if in the future, if needed, I can proof that she keeps reading all his e-mails. It´s obvious that I don´t want her to know that I´m keeping this track. What I wanted to do is rename this file (it has her name on it) with another name and password safe it but I do not know how I can do it with Lotus Notes. Any experts on Lotus Notes out there?
Thanks again to all.

Take care

Dear CountriGal,

There is no such policy at our company that´s why I ask you if you coul pls tell me how can I password protect my Lotes Notes Agenda as well as some e-mails and files I have created on my Lotus Notes. If I give her a wrong password to my Lotus Notes then she will tell and give me a bad name. If instead I can password protect just my LN agenda and some LN documents then I will know if she has been trying to read my things when she tells me that she could not open all my e-mails and agenda.
Thanks for helping me out.
Wish you a pleasant day in the company of your beautiful baby!!!

Thank you guys for your piece of advice. I do agree with you on everything but knowing bossie, he won´t tell her anything, and if he does, he won´t be tactful and then I will have serious problems with my co-worker, since I have to share office with her, who will make my life a living hell.
She has just asked me for my pc´s access code though she doesn´t need it because like I sayed she has access to bossie´s e-mail as well as all job files (we share all of them) and I have told the logistics people that I´m in contact with that during the week that I´ll be away they should write to her e-mail adress. I don´t want her to have access to my pc because I´m afraid she will read my agenda on Lotus Notes as well as read my e-mails. On the other hand, in the past she has given me her pc´s access code (I´ve never used it though) and if I don´t give it to her she will tell everybody and that will not look good on me. Do you know a way to code my Lotus Notes agenda and some LN files so that she won´t be able to read them? Thks a lot.

I´m thinking in the near future about asking my boss for a higher category since I´m two behind my colleague when she just worked as his secretary though I´m to him more like a PA, speak and use more languages and I´m responsible for the logistics of two products that drive everybody whose in the middle (including myself) crazy. Do you think I have a chance? I´ve asked the HR manager (he´s real nice) about it and he´s told me that people hire now days even if they have more degrees, same experience ... won´t get such a high category as the people they have been working here for ages.Thks.

Sorry again for bothering and boring you. Didn´t mean to, though.

Thanks again to all for reading me and for your previous answers.

Have all a great day!!!

Hi guys!
Love your pieces of advice. This time, I need your help in helping me out to better handle my co-worker.
I´ve been working at this Company as the secretary to the Plant Manager (previous experiency = 10 years). The previous secretary, after 16 years decided to take up logistics and therefore asked for a secretary to take her place. I was hired throught out-sourcing and was also interviewed by her. We share the same office, since that´s what she wants. She´s very nice to me but there are a couple of things that piss me off and Bossie (he´s great to work with) knows about them but doesn´t mind since he thinks she´s very professional and I believe that he doesn´t want to have problems with her.
1) I have access to Bossie´s e-mails and have to read them and print the one´s he tells me. She keeps having access to them, reads all of them ... and when I told her she says that if they don´t want her to read them then they should cut her access. I told bossie that in case something happens, I´m not the only person who reads them. He sayed it´s ok and trusts her.
2) Even though I organise traveling for everybody here, she keeps controlling bossie´s expenses and sending them every month to the main office. When I told her I should do it, she sayed no way. I told bossie one day that she says to other colleagues that he includes personal expenses... That day he told the Human Resources Manager that I should do that work myself. The HR told her that bossie did not want her to keep doing it and she got back to him angry saying that she was not interested in doing it since it gave her a lot of work but that she was going to keep doing it. She sitll does.
3) She told me that I should tell bossie that she wanted me to learn her job (logistics) so that I could fill in for her sometime. I did tell bossie and he arranged a meeting with the three of us. To our surprise, she sayed that only she would do that job (even though he insisted that at least 3 people should know that job). Then she sayed I had to take over two products  we manufacture but whose suppliers and customers give a lot of trouble. Bossie sayed then that both of us should handle it, but she sayed that just me since she did´n t want to dispute with the customer/supplier. I´ve been the person responsible for those two products, just on my own, with a lot of headaches for almost two years.
4) She always tells me that if I want to take sometime off not to worry that she will fill in for me. First week of September I will be on holidays, so she will do just that. When I told her I could fill in for her first week of August, she sayed no thanks that her work is too complicated.
5) I´m working as secretary speak 5 foreighn languages (she 2), I´m responsible for the logistics of two products which nobody wants to be responsible for and to top it she has always been two categories above me both when she was just a secretary (I arrange my bosse´s familly holidays, she never did) and now when she is just responsible for logistics.

Perhaps I should not complain since if it weren´t for the above she´s nice. Bossie is great to work for. Colleagues in my building are real sweet. Pay is good (though earning less than her, working more and having more responsibility).

Sorry, didn´t meant to vent. Just started writing without thinking.

Hope you can give me some piece of advice. Am I right to complain or am I just being foolish?

Thanks a lot to you all and wish you a great week.

Monicar