Today Is Say Something Nice to Someone Day
Today is the day everything goes wrong at work for you. You step into the office and the very first thing you see is emails reprimanding you on your handling of certain situations or emails from bosses or seniors telling you to buck up and get your act together. You sit down looking at them puzzled wondering what you did wrong but nobody offers you any answer to that except that you're f---ing up.
As you're sitting down wondering what inspired your bosses and seniors to write those emails to you, another senior drops by your cubicle to say a friendly hello in the form of a sentence that sounds similar to "well you're a royal screw up. Can't you ever do anything right?" This makes your day as you cheerily frown to yourself. You think back to what you could've done over the past few years that could've brought on today but you find yourself lost. You've always performed well at best and marginally well at worst at work. You make a few mistakes here and there but nothing ever life threatening. People who work with or around you tend to have better morale than most. So what's going on? Why are people harping on your recent slump?
And then you realize it's just what Asians do. They pick on people who under perform and ignore good performance because well, people are expected to perform well in the workplace anyway. You sigh a sigh of resignation and pick yourself up from your chair and head over to the water dispenser to grab yourself a cup of warm water.
On the way, to the water dispenser, you pass by the cubicle of one of your subordinates. You see her with her head on her desk. At first, you think that she's probably stealing a nap. But then you hear light sniffles coming from her. You steal a glance at her console monitor and see an email reprimanding her for a small typo in a proposal she helped prepare that caused an entire deal to fall apart.
"Hey, Tina," you say.
"Yeah?"
"About that proposal you prepared, I know the bosses aren't to happy about it but I thought you did a great job."
"Really?" she says with a small smile forming on her face.
"Yeah. I thought it was professional done and well, just about everything was perfect. Forget about that typo. Mistakes happen and bosses get their dicks caught in their zips sometimes. You're doing a great job with your reports and all. Keep it up," you end with a smile. You leave and continue on your odyssey to the water dispenser.
Halfway there, you think to yourself that wouldn't it be nice if everyone made it a point to say something nice to someone in spite of all the mistakes made and done.
Today is Say Something Nice to Someone Day people. Go and make someone's day.
As you're sitting down wondering what inspired your bosses and seniors to write those emails to you, another senior drops by your cubicle to say a friendly hello in the form of a sentence that sounds similar to "well you're a royal screw up. Can't you ever do anything right?" This makes your day as you cheerily frown to yourself. You think back to what you could've done over the past few years that could've brought on today but you find yourself lost. You've always performed well at best and marginally well at worst at work. You make a few mistakes here and there but nothing ever life threatening. People who work with or around you tend to have better morale than most. So what's going on? Why are people harping on your recent slump?
And then you realize it's just what Asians do. They pick on people who under perform and ignore good performance because well, people are expected to perform well in the workplace anyway. You sigh a sigh of resignation and pick yourself up from your chair and head over to the water dispenser to grab yourself a cup of warm water.
On the way, to the water dispenser, you pass by the cubicle of one of your subordinates. You see her with her head on her desk. At first, you think that she's probably stealing a nap. But then you hear light sniffles coming from her. You steal a glance at her console monitor and see an email reprimanding her for a small typo in a proposal she helped prepare that caused an entire deal to fall apart.
"Hey, Tina," you say.
"Yeah?"
"About that proposal you prepared, I know the bosses aren't to happy about it but I thought you did a great job."
"Really?" she says with a small smile forming on her face.
"Yeah. I thought it was professional done and well, just about everything was perfect. Forget about that typo. Mistakes happen and bosses get their dicks caught in their zips sometimes. You're doing a great job with your reports and all. Keep it up," you end with a smile. You leave and continue on your odyssey to the water dispenser.
Halfway there, you think to yourself that wouldn't it be nice if everyone made it a point to say something nice to someone in spite of all the mistakes made and done.
Today is Say Something Nice to Someone Day people. Go and make someone's day.
Labels: extremely pointless
posted by Merv Kwok at
Thursday, July 05, 2007
10 Comments:
Hey Merv!
Have a Nice Day! :)
My Something-Nice-of-the-day for you:
I enjoy your writing :)
LOL..........
Sounds like you........
Have a nice day dude......
Yeah! Let's make the world a happier place to live in! :)
Words can kill; words can heal,
Words can seperate; words can build.
Let our words be like sweet music to the ears of the One who has given us the faculty of speech.
Merv is cute, gorgeous, humorous, kind and sweet.
Happy now?
I had this experience where this guy who was not my immediate boss complained to our other boss about my mistake to hide a mistake of another colleague who was under his supervision. I found this out because coincidentally when he was complaining my friend happened to be there. So sometimes the reasons are equally devious. My immediate boss didn't even make a big deal out of it. Sometimes its just to keep you in check. Which so unfair. But I know how hard you work Merv and you deserve nothing but nose kisses from cute female colleagues
You're an awesome boss Merv!
Yeah, I totally agree with you, it doesn't cost anything to be nice, or say nice things. So keep it up.
Mistakes happen, but look on the bright side, the world still revolves right?;-)
hmm.. say something nice.. ok, let me try.
merv, you're alot smarter than tina the typo crybaby.
gawd knows i've been reprimanded by the boss for worse things. no need to cry over silly typos ok.
thats a really nice thought - kudos if u did it. i agree that management normally only note ur misgivings n mistakes. all ur good works n efforts are normally non-existent. wats new eh?
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