I caught myself about to be an asshole today. About to pull the " but, so and so does it this way" crap that you hear from a ten year old when there's a substitute teacher in the classroom.
Then I looked at what I was doing and I stopped. I looked at how the message I was about to send appeared to the recipient and I thought, I don't want to be that person.
So I went back, and I followed the directions instead of pouting because there was more work for me. And I found a mistake. My mistake.
I was extra glad I didn't send that message. Instead, I thanked that manager for bouncing the request back and admitted that I had a typo in there. An email typo. It would have really screwed the customer up later.
Instead of sounding like a petulant child, I got a "good teamwork"
I think I grew a little today.
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As one of my friends says, "If you're not growing, you're dying." I'd prefer to stay on the upward slope of that bell curve, even if it means I have to make mistakes to do it. ;)
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