A Random Mix<\/a>\u00a0 (Fourth paragraph onwards)<\/p>\nI really had forgotten\u00a0about this conversation until now, when I re-read it again. \u00a0It has been, what, 5.5 years after I posted that? \u00a0And I’m still here in this company, working with the same bunch of people. \u00a0And yes I’m still myself, being as efficient\/capable as before\u00a0and not pretending to be dumb or stupid.<\/p>\n
No, I don’t mince my words or act humble when it comes to work. \u00a0I know my strengths as well as weakness. \u00a0I don’t pretend to be all “no la I where got so good” when I know I am<\/em> good. \u00a0And yes, this is still pissing the rest of\u00a0my colleagues off, but hey, I don’t care how they think of me now. \u00a0I’ve been\u00a0doing 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. \u00a0My 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. \u00a0They’ve no idea what they are doing – they are only following what I do, copying my templates. \u00a0Heck, they even need to take\u00a0my emails and use them as templates when they are sending formal emails out to suppliers or to other departments. \u00a0So 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.<\/p>\nI didn’t survive in this company\/position for 11 years out of luck or due to strings being pulled, you know. ;)<\/p>\n
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. \u00a0They 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. \u00a0Such hypocrisy. \u00a0I’m so<\/em> glad I wasn’t part of it.<\/p>\nSo 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.<\/p>\n
Working life isn’t that bad after all, sometimes. \u00a0:mrgreen:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Wow. I was browsing through the old comments, when I found an old gaming friend commenting\u00a0on one of my blog entries which I had almost forgotten about. The blog entry is here: \u00a0A Random Mix\u00a0 (Fourth paragraph onwards) I really had forgotten\u00a0about this conversation until now, when I re-read it again. \u00a0It has been, what,…<\/span><\/p>\nContinue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5BeXn-fS","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":986,"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/984\/revisions\/986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanity-asylum.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}