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If you find any of the following remotely alarming,
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This adventure begins where many of us spend our days, and depending on the project, sometimes our evenings too.
Anyone who gets up every morning, gets dressed, ventures out of the house, risking life and limb to get there, knows where I'm talking about.
Some of us get there through seas of endless traffic, freeway accidents, waiting in the cue at the border, even braving the incidental infamous "Road Rager;" the one that you are secretly dying to flip the middle finger up at, but decide that you don't know if they carry a gun, so you turn the music up louder and look away before they make eye contact with you.
The signal light turns green and away you go; most mornings on autopilot, coffee cup in one hand, frosted breakfast bar (full of sugar & loads of other crap that taste good) at the ready. You know that a banana would have been a better choice, but you simply love frosting; and it's better for you than a donut....or is it? Besides the line for breakfast at the drive-thru takes too much time, and always makes you late.
Finally, you arrive, carrying all the luggage that makes you look as though you just got in from the airport (maybe some of you have). Most likely it's because you have a project due that you could not finish in the regular 8-10 hour work day, and like many of us, we find ourselves "living to work" instead of "working to live."
You get all of your "luggage" neatly arranged and fire up the desktop while you make more coffee, cause you know you're gonna need it.
Once you get logged in and click on your INBOX, you have opened the flood gates to the world known as EMAIL. Let the games begin.
The priority settings, stack your emails so that you receive them in matter of importance; the first being whom you directly report to, then company owner, so on and so forth. You diligently sort and file every email everyday, so that you start over with a clean INBOX every morning. when you left last night, the box was empty....and now over 200 EMAILS!!!!
You noticed that the gal in the office next to yours (whom you frequently refer to as the 'girl next door') had not yet arrived, and the rest of your team works remotely from another state.
Throughout the week, there had been some random bantering emails between the remote team and the 'girl next door', to which you were included in and still have no idea why. But you do have a few thoughts and opinions about it.
You settle in with your fresh cup of brew and begin reading. The first is the standard email from the standard departments about talking about quotas and the like. You wonder why you are even linked to this email chain. Same person ranting about the same thing week after week..maybe they will eventually get someones attention...squeaky wheel and all that, you surmise; even if you know it's unlikely. As well, this person has been known throughout the company to have a different philosophy, than that of the employer.
The next is a banter about teamwork between the girl next door and another gal in the remote office. They are literally gushing about how fond they are of one another and how much fun they are having working together. You can literally picture them sending "email high fives."
The next several emails following the girl next door and remote gal's "high five emails" are slight bit disturbing, as YOU are specifically called out and named in them.
You begin opening the other emails as you notice that they are from the same sender. You realize that you were either purposely included or it was like a episode of 'Dumbest Criminals' and you were accidentally included in the chain,
The irony is that you have neither done nor said anything personally to either of them, so you are completely blindsided by this whole conversation.
Now you have to, 'read between the lines,'because last time you told the boss what was going on his response was some garbled garbage about "when two alpha females work together" making it sound sound like you have no business bringing anything to his attention, even it were business or life threatening.
Just as you are completing the email that you will send, your boss walks into your office and advises, that you are in fact correct, and that he was wrong about 'the girl next door.' He further explains that she will be leaving the company very soon as she rumpled all of the feathers of nearly all of the management team.
Three days later, 'the girl next door' is gone, the scads of endless emails has ceased and you can get back to what you are paid to do..."drama has left the building."
The next is a banter about teamwork between the girl next door and another gal in the remote office. They are literally gushing about how fond they are of one another and how much fun they are having working together. You can literally picture them sending "email high fives."
The next several emails following the girl next door and remote gal's "high five emails" are slight bit disturbing, as YOU are specifically called out and named in them.
You begin opening the other emails as you notice that they are from the same sender. You realize that you were either purposely included or it was like a episode of 'Dumbest Criminals' and you were accidentally included in the chain,
The irony is that you have neither done nor said anything personally to either of them, so you are completely blindsided by this whole conversation.
Now you have to, 'read between the lines,'because last time you told the boss what was going on his response was some garbled garbage about "when two alpha females work together" making it sound sound like you have no business bringing anything to his attention, even it were business or life threatening.
Just as you are completing the email that you will send, your boss walks into your office and advises, that you are in fact correct, and that he was wrong about 'the girl next door.' He further explains that she will be leaving the company very soon as she rumpled all of the feathers of nearly all of the management team.
Three days later, 'the girl next door' is gone, the scads of endless emails has ceased and you can get back to what you are paid to do..."drama has left the building."
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