It’s a truth well-known but little acknowledged that when an employee is faced with a new type of workplace pressure, he will revert back to skill sets that saw him through his previous jobs; I’m sure this doesn’t adequately excuse Stevens, the former pro-wrestler, from what he did to the Exec VP at the joint-application development meeting, but maybe it’s a start.
Ahhhh. This would explain why every time I am asked to lend my customer-service expertise to a brand-new angry customer, I feel the sudden urge to go shape a thousand baguettes and semolina rolls instead. Thank you, Pam!
Incidentally, I’m feeling a little soreness in my neck and back. Feel free to give Stevens my extension. Thanking you in advance.
I miss the old days. Watching someone slam an ergonomically correct office chair across a coworker’s back just doesn’t have the excitement and snap of the the good ‘ol metal chair days. Thankfully (as Stevens well knows), headlocks are timeless.
It’s an intriguing notion. In my wildly varied career I have, at different stages, worked around dead people and cleaned up the vomit and faeces of the living.
Thanks, Pam.
[boot gets out the ‘evil-plotting’ whiteboard]
Working around dead people? I’m imagining it being some sort of state job. Cubicles and desks. “Dead” people propped up in front of computer monitors and copy machines.