Escohort said:
Not really fair assessment, ocean, unless you suffer from amnesia it's something you carry with you till you die IMO
Yes and no. In my previous job my supervisors and co-workers were real bastards. They had a neat little system going until I was brought in. Their system of doing things was highly ineffective and dysfunctional. I came in, never exposed them all to higher ups, but simply did my job better than them. After a while upper management wanted to know why the new guy was so much more efficient than the old crew so they started to screw with me by giving me stuff at the last possible minute to do and then blaming me when things didn't go right. They made my life hell. Oh the extra hours I had to work to get the stuff done they would throw at me or have to correct their mistakes which they blamed on me. Upper management came to believe the entire office couldn't be wrong and the one new guy right, so they got on my back.
Now I work a new job where I am very happy and my bosses recognize it wasn't me that was the problem at my old job (they had been apprehensive after calling my old bosses).
I happened to run into a bunch of them in a bar and saw them kind of look over at me. So I just went over, smiled, bought them a round and went about my business. Any time memories come back and I start to get pissed, I just remind myself there's no way in hell I'm going to let them get to me. They tried their best but I came out on top in the long run so what the hell do I care what they think of me?
Of course, that didn't stop me from taking some satisfaction when a couple of them lost their jobs due to cutbacks.
