Here's to you Terrell Owens! People forgot you played in the Super Bowl last year in 2004 with a broken ankle, risking your career and health and now in 2005, everyone in Philadelphia hates you.
Sometimes, things go great at work, and then there are those times...when you make a mistake and suddenly you....are just out of the Loop. You make a technical error..a system went down and all of a sudden you plunge from the A List to the F list. Friends suddenly disappear, your cubicle gets quiet, the phone stops ringing and email vanishes..You sit there glum in a funk...
Corporate culture has changed and zero tolerance is everywhere and even the smallest technical mistake can lead to sudden silence (real or imagined) when you go into the coffee mess..Could you imagine if Werhner Von Braun or the Wright Brothers were alive today? Von Braun crashed some 200 rockets before his first launch and the Wright Brothers lost quite a few gliders at Kitty Hawk..
Whenever I go into these tailspins I think about last May when the fire department finished pouring 100 gallons of water into my 300D after a dash fire. The next day, the windshield was cracked, the two front tires had lost air and a few days later when i started her, the transmission was Dead! (It had to be replaced)
Well she didnt end up in the junkyard,today she is restored to pristine condition and sits out there in the parking lot! So listen to this everyone.
When the good times come back and everyone wants to be your friend again, remember this. Well everyone needs people, and friends but its like my daughter said when she was 6.
"Dad you can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's noses" Thats deeper than you think, because I think it reflects the absurdity of the human condition sometimes! We all need people but boy, they sure can be a hard lot to judge sometimes...