Comments on: My Last Day of Work http://kev.elbowroomdesign.com/34/my-last-day-of-work/ improvising ideas and inspiring change Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Cheap Ravens Jersey http://kev.elbowroomdesign.com/34/my-last-day-of-work/comment-page-1/#comment-891 Cheap Ravens Jersey Mon, 15 Aug 2011 13:04:08 +0000 http://kev.elbowroomdesign.com/34/my-last-day-of-work/#comment-891 The dream was so clear as if I were watching a movie. The dream was so clear as if I were watching a movie.

]]> By: Mary http://kev.elbowroomdesign.com/34/my-last-day-of-work/comment-page-1/#comment-214 Mary Wed, 12 Sep 2007 19:57:38 +0000 http://kev.elbowroomdesign.com/34/my-last-day-of-work/#comment-214 This is cruel and sad but you have a gift--a great sense of humor under any circumstances. I love your approach to life and your writing style. A similar thing happened to me. In my case, I was fired not because of performance but for personal reasons. I suspected one person being the mastermind but he had helpers as well. I have been on that job for 6 months and during that time I got nothing but praise, including praises from our departmental VP. The person under suspicion had been with the company for ten years, extremely conservative, divorced, miserable, judgmental about women (even more so if the women was of color--that's me). There were a couple of subtle and one straight-forward confrontations with Mr. Misery. After that I stopped having any interactions with him unless I needed to for work. I gathered that a man like him didn't take subtle rejection from women very well. He had a strong hold with the main boss and the HR director. Things were being cooked behind my back that I had no idea about the conspiracy. My supervisor joined in and I'm sure there were others. Oneday I came in and my name plate was missing from the cube! People told me that it might have been the cleaning person. So I created one with paper and put it there. Miraculously the missing plate returned the next morning. That man used to come to work 6 a.m. before anyone else. I have noticed eye contacts and mysterious smile exchanges among my colleagues. Needless to say, I was an outcaste and miserable there despite my efforts to be friendly and loving. Later I realized that the episode with the name plate was a Warning! . Only a few days later HR director called me in and I knew something was up. She asked me to sign some papers by telling me that my performance wasn't good enough, etc., and I ws being let go. That was a very hurtful and unfair treatment and of course unexpected! As a spiritual person, I knew why all of those happened. It was not my place and being with those people, I may have had lost my peace and grace, turned into a person God didn't want me to become. Although I had to go through that experience, it worked towards my benefits. In a dream, the people involved (particularly the supervisor who gave me nothing but praise, then stubbed me in the back) were revealed to me. The dream was so clear as if I were watching a movie. After that I don't keep personal belongings at work except for some snacks in the drawers. Yes, you never know what may happen. Sounds like you have a good, successful career/business and I am happy things worked out for you. I am still hoping and believing for mine. This is cruel and sad but you have a gift–a great sense of humor under any circumstances. I love your approach to life and your writing style.

A similar thing happened to me. In my case, I was fired not because of performance but for personal reasons. I suspected one person being the mastermind but he had helpers as well. I have been on that job for 6 months and during that time I got nothing but praise, including praises from our departmental VP. The person under suspicion had been with the company for ten years, extremely conservative, divorced, miserable, judgmental about women (even more so if the women was of color–that’s me). There were a couple of subtle and one straight-forward confrontations with Mr. Misery. After that I stopped having any interactions with him unless I needed to for work. I gathered that a man like him didn’t take subtle rejection from women very well. He had a strong hold with the main boss and the HR director. Things were being cooked behind my back that I had no idea about the conspiracy. My supervisor joined in and I’m sure there were others.

Oneday I came in and my name plate was missing from the cube! People told me that it might have been the cleaning person. So I created one with paper and put it there. Miraculously the missing plate returned the next morning. That man used to come to work 6 a.m. before anyone else. I have noticed eye contacts and mysterious smile exchanges among my colleagues. Needless to say, I was an outcaste and miserable there despite my efforts to be friendly and loving. Later I realized that the episode with the name plate was a Warning! . Only a few days later HR director called me in and I knew something was up. She asked me to sign some papers by telling me that my performance wasn’t good enough, etc., and I ws being let go. That was a very hurtful and unfair treatment and of course unexpected!

As a spiritual person, I knew why all of those happened. It was not my place and being with those people, I may have had lost my peace and grace, turned into a person God didn’t want me to become. Although I had to go through that experience, it worked towards my benefits. In a dream, the people involved (particularly the supervisor who gave me nothing but praise, then stubbed me in the back) were revealed to me. The dream was so clear as if I were watching a movie.

After that I don’t keep personal belongings at work except for some snacks in the drawers. Yes, you never know what may happen.

Sounds like you have a good, successful career/business and I am happy things worked out for you. I am still hoping and believing for mine.

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