Today started off with me feeling sick. I didnt continuously sleep last night at all. I decided to call work and come in for half the day and go to the dr in the morning. 3 hours later and 4 viles of blood out of my arm (ouch! I hate needles) I was back home and on my way to work.
All last week I must have gotten 10 pieces of email. I'm off for 3 days and I have 40 unread messages in my inbox. Go figure right? But...one particular email caught my eye made me pause to ask myself if they were decieving me. In the 5 months since I've worked here I have been working hard and striving to make it to a special luncheon for the elite in the company. This has been my goal. Fast forward alot of details, and frustrations (I care not to re-hash) and I've finally made it. Yay!! Not only that but I recieved another great peice of news; I'm #1 out of all my peers in my category! WOW!!!!! That was a shock. I actually thought I was doing bad...guess not!
3 hours into my half a day work day I began regretting coming in. I was tired and wanted to lie down so badly that it hurt..literally. Just as things were looking up and my end of day was 3 minutes away Iget a message on my blackBerry.
I contemplated whether I was going to post about this but it (made me feel a ways) offended me and since this blog is meant to air my thoughts and ramblings I figured I would put it here (since watching tv, complaining to my bf and chatting up my friends on FB didnt work to distract me). I was super happy at the birth of a new baby boy that I decided to post my congrats to the new mother (who is also on facebook)on FB. I was really happy. You would think it was my child or this person was a really close family member of mine like say...my cousin whom I absolutly adore!
Well the BB was about you guessed it my FB post. When I posted the congrats a friend of mine who doesnt know the new mother posted asking me questions like, "what kind of baby did the person have and how?". The questions were moreso because she is having her first baby aswell. I replied it was a boy and by c-section. Apparently this was offensive because next thing I am getting a BB (from the new mothers family member)at the end of my work day telling me thats he was offended and thought the information should have been private. I pointed out that my friend doesnt know the new mother and I wasnt aware that it had the potential to offend anyone. I was just really happy for the new mother. And like I said I was happy on the level that you would think I had the type of bond that I do with my cousin whom is my BEST FRIEND! My big mistake as hindsight has proven to indeed be 20/20.
I dont like drama and maybe I am seeing this wrong but I by no means had any intentions of offending anyone or crossing any lines at all. It made me feel bad but also offended me too because I meant no harm to the new mother or anyone she knows. Perhaps in my zeal I committed the very offence I had no intentions of committing. This in turn offended me. So I apologized and told them it would be taken down when I got home.
Lesson learned: From now on unless I share a bloodline, last name or family limb, leaf or stem then I dont share any congratulatory happiness for anyone on FB. I didnt like the tone of the BB and I didnt like being made to feel like a child who was out of line. Trust me this will never happen again-Ever!
Its'a lesson learned. One that wont be lost on me in the future.
Till I post again
All last week I must have gotten 10 pieces of email. I'm off for 3 days and I have 40 unread messages in my inbox. Go figure right? But...one particular email caught my eye made me pause to ask myself if they were decieving me. In the 5 months since I've worked here I have been working hard and striving to make it to a special luncheon for the elite in the company. This has been my goal. Fast forward alot of details, and frustrations (I care not to re-hash) and I've finally made it. Yay!! Not only that but I recieved another great peice of news; I'm #1 out of all my peers in my category! WOW!!!!! That was a shock. I actually thought I was doing bad...guess not!
3 hours into my half a day work day I began regretting coming in. I was tired and wanted to lie down so badly that it hurt..literally. Just as things were looking up and my end of day was 3 minutes away Iget a message on my blackBerry.
I contemplated whether I was going to post about this but it (made me feel a ways) offended me and since this blog is meant to air my thoughts and ramblings I figured I would put it here (since watching tv, complaining to my bf and chatting up my friends on FB didnt work to distract me). I was super happy at the birth of a new baby boy that I decided to post my congrats to the new mother (who is also on facebook)on FB. I was really happy. You would think it was my child or this person was a really close family member of mine like say...my cousin whom I absolutly adore!
Well the BB was about you guessed it my FB post. When I posted the congrats a friend of mine who doesnt know the new mother posted asking me questions like, "what kind of baby did the person have and how?". The questions were moreso because she is having her first baby aswell. I replied it was a boy and by c-section. Apparently this was offensive because next thing I am getting a BB (from the new mothers family member)at the end of my work day telling me thats he was offended and thought the information should have been private. I pointed out that my friend doesnt know the new mother and I wasnt aware that it had the potential to offend anyone. I was just really happy for the new mother. And like I said I was happy on the level that you would think I had the type of bond that I do with my cousin whom is my BEST FRIEND! My big mistake as hindsight has proven to indeed be 20/20.
I dont like drama and maybe I am seeing this wrong but I by no means had any intentions of offending anyone or crossing any lines at all. It made me feel bad but also offended me too because I meant no harm to the new mother or anyone she knows. Perhaps in my zeal I committed the very offence I had no intentions of committing. This in turn offended me. So I apologized and told them it would be taken down when I got home.
Lesson learned: From now on unless I share a bloodline, last name or family limb, leaf or stem then I dont share any congratulatory happiness for anyone on FB. I didnt like the tone of the BB and I didnt like being made to feel like a child who was out of line. Trust me this will never happen again-Ever!
Its'a lesson learned. One that wont be lost on me in the future.
Till I post again
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