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Wounded Bird Syndrome
False weakness is deplorable.
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Bullies
There’s nothing I hate more on this earth than a bully. And I happen to interact with one regularly. Her aggression really intimidated me at first. But over time when she realized I wasn’t going to budge about certain things, she then had to get increasingly nit-picky until now the things that she blows up…
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Generosity
I can always tell when my coworkers are burned out. They stop coming to work early. In fact, some of them will arrive a few minutes early but wait in their cars, only coming in at the last possible moment. They are perfectly within their rights to do so, of course, but what that means…
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I am NOT Made of Glass
I have a new coworker who annoys the crap out of me. Oh, he means well, and I’m sure in any other context I’d think he was just fine. But within five minutes of meeting me, he called me a girl. Great. I’m 49 and have almost 13 more years of experience on this job…
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Is There a Moral Tipping Point?
It’s quiet here on the river tonight, and a pea soup fog is obscuring my view. It’s the perfect time for reflection. At times like this my mind tends to wander. I was thinking about a story that a coworker told me many, many years ago that has haunted me ever since. When he was…