Wow.
I was browsing through the old comments, when I found an old gaming friend commenting on one of my blog entries which I had almost forgotten about.
The blog entry is here: A Random Mix (Fourth paragraph onwards)
I really had forgotten about this conversation until now, when I re-read it again. It has been, what, 5.5 years after I posted that? And I’m still here in this company, working with the same bunch of people. And yes I’m still myself, being as efficient/capable as before and not pretending to be dumb or stupid.
No, I don’t mince my words or act humble when it comes to work. I know my strengths as well as weakness. I don’t pretend to be all “no la I where got so good” when I know I am good. And yes, this is still pissing the rest of my colleagues off, but hey, I don’t care how they think of me now. I’ve been doing my work just fine, and well, they can try to backstab me if they want to, but they can’t do anything to me when it comes to work. My shields are always solid, up and ready, even against people in my own department. I know my work inside out, something which I daresay they don’t. They’ve no idea what they are doing – they are only following what I do, copying my templates. Heck, they even need to take my emails and use them as templates when they are sending formal emails out to suppliers or to other departments. So unless they can reach or catch up to my level of understanding and consistency at work, they can try all they want to badmouth / backstab me, and I’m still immune to it.
I didn’t survive in this company/position for 11 years out of luck or due to strings being pulled, you know. ;)
11 years in this company, in this department, and I’ve found out that there’s no true friendship between colleagues in the same department. They are all friendly towards each other on the surface, always gossip with each other during lunch, but if one day someone in that group is absent, you’ll find the entire group gossiping negative stuff about the one who isn’t there. Such hypocrisy. I’m so glad I wasn’t part of it.
So yes, I’m still sticking around, going about in my own merry way, getting things done before deadlines, settling in this small, warm, cosy corner where the shelf partition hides me from plain view.
Working life isn’t that bad after all, sometimes. :mrgreen:
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