“Life is a rat
race” this is an emotion experienced by almost everyone who is
working and competing in today's world. My life would have been just
a rat race however this rat race can become that much more difficult
if you have a colleague who leaves no attempt to step on your toes.
Mine was such a life but I could not complain for I was a small town
wannabe moving to a big town in search of a better future and a
stable job.
I took my time
settling into the new lifestyle and getting used to bracing my self
to the challenges of the corporate culture that was quite new for me.
The fact that I was
assigned to a team that had an office worker who was nothing short of
an office bully. He made me divulge every idea of mine and presented
it as his own.
The points and ideas
that I presented were opposed vociferously by him. As he was my
senior there was little I could do.
Matters became so
difficult that I was contemplating a change of job. I even started
looking for a new opening that would be suitable for me.
In the meantime I
tried my best to cope up with the office situation.
On one occasion our
office was to be represented at an important regional meet. As luck
would have it I and my bully colleague were picked up to represent
the office. The job of creating the presentation was thrust upon me.
However the presentation part was to be handled by both of us
collectively.
I was assigned an
office laptop to prepare the presentation. I diligently work on the
presentation and did my best to make it as informative as possible.
As the conference
was at an off site location we traveled and reached our destination a
day in advance. In the evening when we switched on the laptop to
practice the presentation. The laptop would not turn on. There was
only the clicking sound of the hard drive. We got the laptop examined
by the IT support team who informed us that the hard disk had
crashed. This news made my heart sink and I knew for sure that all
the blame would fall on me. Thinking of the consequences tears began
to flow from my eyes.
As I was mentally
preparing myself to face the music. My resourceful colleague arranged
for an alternate laptop. As I had some notes with me I started
recreating my presentation. To my utter surprise my colleague started
helping me. He guided me like a true mentor and this was very
encouraging. We sat throughout the night working on our
presentation. The final presentation turned out to be even better
then what I had prepared initially. When we presented it our ideas
were greatly appreciated at the conference. We had successes as a
team and I had earned some valuable experience and a very good
mentor. When we left back from the venue. The bully had been left
behind and instead the person who came along was a warm and caring
colleague. #MagicOfWarmth
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