Unfriend

I JUST got hired at my company, and my co-worker and close friend did not. She got passed over, and remains a ‘temp’. She has not spoken to me in a week.
She claims it was because I didn’t tell her I was getting hired, even though company policy states I couldn’t, until it was official. When I did try to tell her, she refused to speak with me. It was then I learned she heard it from someone else.

I’ve bent over backwards for this woman, and now she won’t even look at me. Am I wrong if I wait for her to approach me? I’m so angry at the situation, I don’t think I should apologize.
Renae

Renae,
You can’t apologize to someone who snubs you because of your good fortune. You know, and we know, she isn’t angry because you didn’t tell her; she is angry because you got the job, and she didn’t.
Any overture to this woman will make her think you were wrong, and she is entitled to be in the superior position; it will tell her you condone her actions.
You can’t do that. Friends want good things for each other; they aren’t spiteful. Without a full-on, meaningful apology from her, she shouldn’t be in your life. We have to be careful who we call “friend”.

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