I started a fun meme in the copy chat room at work where I share quotes from an “actual person.” I finally let them know the identity of the “actual person” and they all responded with a knowing nod. Now that the “actual person” has left the company and that we’ve now started our own “redundancies,” it’s not as funny. We didn’t even get the opportunity to have a fairwell soirée, so I think that her worst fears—that she didn’t have a ton of fans—seems well-founded.
However, I think that I knew her better than most of my colleagues. After all, I went to a conference in Vegas with her. We had some time to chat and I think that she honestly came from a different place. That business-to-business marketing wasn’t for her, which is a legitimate problem. She presented as a fish out of water, and my fellow kittens pawing at the surface of the pond picked up on that.
Since then, things have changed at the workplace. More on that in a little bit.
Your very best pal,
– bob