SO--- today I got the word that my apartment is approved AND got a one-year lease with January thrown in as a freebie!!! Yay!!! It's a great place with 2 indoor pools that I can exercise in the winter without having to be super dry when leaving. Can just get into the elevator and go to MY place. Yipee!! Do I sound excited? Yes! I am so looking forward to going HOME where I belong. I am almost all packed up and ready to start writing about my family tree. Not that my current place is that bad. I have met some wonderful people, made lots of friends And had a chance to deal with some b-s on a small scale. But, Corporate America has nothing over small town New Mexico.
You better identify the movers and shakers in a small town fast. Don't piss them off. But, most of all....don't let them out of your site once you've ID'd them. NO. Not talking about brown nosing. Just know when they plan on moving against you. Yep. They can make your life miserable, or be as innocuous as a peanut. Those are the ones I like. I can be a team player as long as the whole team is working together. Only takes one person to bad mouth you to make your life interesting.
Why do I say that you might wonder? Wonder no more. I work with a girl, can't really call her a woman(more later), mother of two, who for some reason took a GREAT dislike to me and has bad mouthed me to everyone she can. Why? Who knows? Actively rabid--munch, munch, munch.
The reason I don't call her a woman is because she has never been able to say anything to my face. Even when asked what the problem was. HA, HA, HA:)))) Just left her alone for a pretty long time. But now, I love to say good morning to her in my sweetest voice and watch her cringe. Some of the folks I work with have come to me and told me some of the things she's said and wonder why. What I wonder is why didn't these people tell her to shut-up. That's not right. A couple of them did. They are not on her good side. Poor thing.
I don't know one WOMAN who has been in the same field for any length of time that hasn't encountered someone like this. Rest assured, most of THOSE girls don't have staying power. Sort of like an old man without Viagra. Goodness I can't stop laughing. Taking forever to get this typed in.
SO---to you young women entering into your career, or have been in a career that you love for less than five years, rest assured--you are in the elite group. You are not alone. The path has been paved for you as it was for me. I have worked with some of the most amazing women in the Cardiopulmonary field. I made it my mission to learn from them and am grateful that they were secure enough in themselves not to be intimated by an upstart full of questions. Thank you ladies!
I can only wonder if my Grandpa Julian has anything to do with my attitude. Of course he does! When I was little I would sit in his lap and watch one of my uncles, who was hooked on heroin, and his friends droop over, scratch his face like a long armed orangutan and smile stupidly, Grandpa would ask me, "What do you see?" I would answer, "They look stupid." Grandpa would tell me, "They are stupid." Made me secure in the knowledge that my Grandpa, my hero, would always have my back. I am only sorry that it broke his heart to see one of his sons in that condition. Even after all these years I love you Grandpa.
Good night all.
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