The Falling Oak - Learning How to Die
Copyright© 2018 by Darian Wolfe
Chapter 47: Happy 4th of July
July 4th, 2019
Hello Everyone,
I hope everyone has a safe and happy fourth. Please remember Roman Candles are not meant to be held as they are going off. A few years ago, a cousin of my wife who is in his early thirties ignored that piece of practical wisdom and it exploded on him. He was hospitalized with severe burns and bruising. The base plate slammed into his chest.
Things have been a bit different. I have developed a new for me symptom. I will think of and hear myself saying one word. Everyone else hears me saying another word. I went an entire several minute conversation at work thinking I was saying curtain when I was actually saying mirror. The customer had to point it out to me over seven times before I heard myself saying mirror. That will trip you out. Made me nervous as hell as one of my favorite go to words is fuck. Wouldn’t that go real well at work:
“Yes, I’ll be happy to include another box of fuck to your order.”
“Did you just say Fuck!”
“No Ma’am, I would never say that. I said I would be happy to include another box of fuck to your order.”
“You did it again.”
“No, I didn’t.”
That would be an interesting conversation to have with my boss. I had a meltdown at work. I work from home and we use Microsoft team for inter-office communication. My immediate supervisor completely blows the awesome scale out of the water. He’s had my back from day one. We have a new manager who I’ve never met or interacted with. He started sending me messages through my boss telling me I had to have certain FMLA paperwork in now or else.
I took that as a direct threat and a dominance tactic. A boss is there to define your work, guide you in it’s execution, grade you on the quality of your performance and if necessary correct you up to and including termination of your employment. None of that, requires him to attempt to dominate me or threaten my job from the very first instant of out first interaction.
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