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My handsome manager asked me for a meeting after work in his office on the second day of my employment.
If you've worked on your Day 2 as a beautiful young girl you know what i mean!! I barely knew where the printer was at work.
At 5:47pm he walked past my desk. "Can you come to my office when you're done? Don't rush. I'll still be here."
I said okay. Then I sat there for 11 minutes pretending to be typing on my keyboard but my mind was already in his office imagining!! Lights dim. Door closed. Just the two of us. Late.
I fixed my lipstick in my phone camera. Checked my blouse. Told myself I was being crazy.
I wasn't sure I was being crazy;!
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Missing child Kutlwano has been found alive at OR Tambo International Airport with a woman who allegedly claimed to be his aunt and was reportedly trying to take him to Zimbabwe.
The woman had previously worked for his family and claimed she had raised him. Police intervened before they could leave the country.
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Clavicular breaks down the wild Cybertruck situation involving a stalker. 😮💨🚨
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Then something happened that made me question whether I was angry at the wrong person.
Our manager called me into his office.
He said, “You were the strongest person technically. But she was the person people actually wanted to work with.”
I laughed.
I thought he was joking.
He wasn't.
He pulled up feedback from the team.
Apparently, people were scared to ask me questions because I made them feel stupid when they didn't understand something.
I always thought I was being “efficient.”
They experienced it as arrogance.
Then he said something that really annoyed me:
“You've been doing the job for four years. You started believing that experience entitled you to the next position.”
I didn't have an answer.
Because he was right.
But here's where the story gets uncomfortable.
Two weeks later, my new team lead made a mistake that cost the company money.
A mistake I could have prevented in five minutes.
She came to my desk and asked me to help fix it.
I did.
She thanked me.
Then she said:
“I'm not trying to replace you. I'm trying to learn how to lead like you should have been taught.”
That sentence stayed with me.
Because sometimes you don't lose a promotion because someone else was better than you.
Sometimes you lose it because you became so good at your job that you forgot how difficult you had become to work with.
And honestly?
I'm still not completely over it.
But I'm finally asking myself a harder question:
Was I actually overlooked...
or was I simply never as good at leadership as I thought I was?
Because those are two very different things.
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