Skip to main content

Posts

Showing posts from December, 2017

I Cried at Work - A Novella

Hello everyone! Let me preface this post with this-this blog post is not really a novella. I am just trying to be creative with my titles. This post may not have fun pictures in it (unless I can find some), I just have to tell you something I learned today. So let me begin... I had a one on one with my manager today. Usually, these are pretty good, but I feel this one was a bit of a game changer for me and my boss and our relationship - it only took about four years! We were discussing something I can improve on and then she started to praise me... well give me positive feedback. "I know all the things you do and I don't always tell you, but you are really fantastic and are an asset"... Then enter the waterworks, I am serious. I was so embarrassed and ashamed that I cried in front of my boss (who is the director of the department may I add). But here is where it comes from - I haven't had a TRUE verbal compliment from her in a very long time. I don't n