Working Wounded
Chapter One
SHOT FULL OF HOLES
Just Trying to Survive 9 to 5
ARE YOU ONE OF THE WORKING WOUNDED?
Have you taken a few bullets in the course of your career? I'm not
talking about disgruntled postal workers here; I'm talking about the
other kind of workplace "bullet" that can wound your heart, your
mind and your career. You know the ammo: inflexible bosses,
irritating co-workers, counterproductive corporate policies and the
like. Well, over the years I've met plenty of people who were
wounded on the job, but scar for scar none can match Jane-and what
she taught me about workplace survival.
I'd been hired as a consultant to help restructure a large
department at an insurance company, and since tensions had mounted
during the project, I'd invited several of the key players to my
home for a purely social evening. We were well into dinner before
the conversation drifted away from shoptalk, but as I got up to pass
the pasta for the second time I heard Jane, a manager in the
department, talking about her sinuses.
"That's why I'm out so much," she was saying. "I've had trouble with
my sinuses ever since I ... read full excerpt from Working Wounded; ebook
