Posted on 04/07/2006 by SouthernProgrammer
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I used to work at a place that had a REALLY mean person who used to be the MIS manager and had sent one person to a near nervous breakdown. She was then put in charge of an order department where she lorded over everyone and watched their time much like the "old time" office manager.
IE: You took thirty ONE minutes for lunch!?!?!?! Are you nuts!
Well, she crossed the wrong person one day. That person was made plant manager the next week and she was quickly demoted to a lower position.
My co-worker had to interact with her on a job and she managed to push his buttons every day. One day, she had left me a message that her computer was misbehaving so I went to check it out. She was out so I sent my co-worker (from her PC) an email that demanded an immediate update on their project..etc..and at the end I said calm down this is [insert my idiotic name here].
So I sent the email and then deleted it from the sent items.
Well, guess who decided to open up her deleted items and read each email that day?
I got a phone call from her telling me she had this odd email and so I immediately said I would be right over. I explained to her what I did, knowing full well I could be fired for breaking the "unwritten law" of network admins.
Well, she just sat for a minute and then said quietly, "We all make mistakes" and then turned away. I later found out she had been diagnosed with terminal cancer earlier that week.
From then on we got along fairly well and she even said I would be missed when I left for another job.
She recently passed on, so I thought I would post this as proof that sometimes the forgiveness does happen from those you least expect it.
POST A COMMENTDharmadee(04/08/2006)
It sounds to me like she was given numerous chances to change her ways, and she finally got it. Maybe it was at the very end, but at least she did get a clue.
thelma(04/12/2006)
Well, I worked for a guy who had kidney disease and was awaiting a transplant or he'd die. He didn't get a new kidney and he was a total jerk til the very end. Somebody people don't "repent."
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