March 2007 Archives
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Reveal Your Personality Type & Weak Areas. During a fly by the seat of my pants phase, I moved from Ohio to Texas.I like a change now and then. I was on a bus exploring and the inevitable call from the big city bus driver was urgent, “Move to the back of the bus please. Make room for more passengers!” There it was, my personal boulder, one 4-foot Black lady stood between me and compliance with a request to move to the back of the bus; I understood she didn’t want to go to the back of the bus; I knew the implication. But certainly I could go to the back of the bus. “Excuse me, I need to move to the back of the bus.” She ignored me. “PLEASE move to the back of the bus; MAKE ROOM for more passengers!” shouted the bus driver. “Okay, lady, I gotta move to the back. Excuse me,” I apologized as I was pushed past her by the enthralling crowd moving like toothpaste through a tube. She pointed her finger in my face and said “You Mexicans, you come here and think you own the place. Why don’t you go back where you came from?” Yes, things are different in the south and this little pink caucazoid girl from the north experienced it first hand.
“How much longer will it be before we get that stationery?" asked the Office Supply Manager, "I ordered it a couple of weeks ago and it still hasn’t come in." Every order was accompanied by a purchase order, so I asked him to provide me with a copy of it. I wondered to myself how I could have missed placing that order. Turns out I didn’t miss it. Mr. Office Supply Manager was afraid of losing his job; he had screwed up so many times, they were looking to terminate him. Determined to place the blame squarely on me, he copied an old purchase order and changed the dates. You know, people never sign their names in the same place; it’s always a little up or down, left or right. Putting his last purchase order on top of a previous one on the light table exposed the fakery. Everything was dead-on exact, right down to the casually quick approval of his division VP.
