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How To Offend Everyone At Work With A Phone Message

AND BE GLAD THAT YOU DID

The phone message was full of foul language and vile sentiments…and I sent it to my boss!

It was possibly one of the best things I have ever done.

A common enough mistake

Chances are, most of us have done something like this – written a few snide comments about someone in a group email then pressed “reply all” or sent a gossipy phone message to the person it was about rather than our bitching partner.

It is not nice, it adds to office tensions as gossip and cliques make everyone nervous about whether they are in the popular crowd. I have honestly always tried to avoid being part of such groups.

So why did I do it?

Let me explain:

I was on the last day of my holiday. I was in a restaurant and I had turned my phone off. A lovely relaxing end to my break.

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THROUGH THE GLASS…an explanation

Through the glass…a lot of what is written here will be observations made through the glass of the front windscreen of an old, lumbering, slightly shabby road ship of dreams – our beloved CREE motor-home.

As well as this, THROUGH THE GLASS carries a deeper meaning. Everyone looks  at life through glass of some sort – our filters:  our experiences, our opinions of what we are looking at, our upbringing and culture, our past and present  – even our current mood which changes with the wind. NOT just me is it??   THROUGH THE GLASS will give me the chance to write – prose, poetry, thoughts, rants and general squit.  It will allow me to explore my own filters…and challenge them.  It will show me how to clean the glass that I look through and see what is really out there…and the possibilities that await.

The CREE will feature heavily in this – it is when traveling in that cumbersome beast that I lose the sense of heaviness which comes with living in this  busy-busy rat race. I lose the sense of anxiety that the passage of time brings. I lose my sense of self – the ego sleeps a little more soundly.  I lose the cage I created for myself and step outside its confines into a world where anything is possible – a world where I am not frightened to try.

I may even explain the word SQUIT for anyone who is not from Suffolk!

Love –  TRUDI