I found myself increasingly frustrated with my work colleague. But I bit my tongue in meetings. I ignored their eye rolls when I brought up new ideas and I didn’t point out how many times they had dropped the ball.
Then one day, I snapped. I went on a verbal rant, finally delivering the speech I had been rehearsing in my shower for months, pointing out every single thing that was driving me crazy.
Apparently, my colleague had been rehearsing a little speech about me too. They had all my character defects at the front of their mind and unleashed them on me. It escalated quickly. We both stormed out of the office irate.
The next night we had an important event, one that we’d been preparing for months. Right before the event started, we both realized, the people about to go on stage didn’t have the updated material. The two of us made instant eye…
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