Lawrinson14
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I once worked with a guy from Pitt. During the first month or so, everybody was unsure of him. I mean, he did his work, but mostly he just did mundane, easy tasks (organizing documents, sending out meeting invites, etc.).
As time wore on, he began asking for harder projects and more responsibility. He wanted to be included in the meetings that he was setting up. He wanted to help write the documents that he was told to organize. And after a couple months, he was given the opportunities he asked for and really did a great job. In fact, his work was quite impressive. Dare I say he even began to overshadow myself and my colleagues...
The guy everyone was unsure of, was now one of the favorites within the office.
Then one day in the spring, our clients were visiting for a huge meeting. We all had confidence in our team to pull through and really impress. Our presentation was extremely well rehearsed. We all had our own separate parts and the utmost faith in one another that we would knock the socks off of these marketing directors.
Then came the actually presentation...the thing that all of our work for the year culminated in. And when it was the guy from Pitt's time to speak, a cat the size of a sabertooth tiger apparently latched onto his tongue.
He could not utter a single word.
He choked.
Needless to say, the rest of us had to pick up the slack. We all had to jump in and take over his part of the presentation that we vaguely had remembered due to our rehearsals and previous internal meetings.
About a week after, he quit.
Although the last I heard, he did the same thing around last March at his new company.
As time wore on, he began asking for harder projects and more responsibility. He wanted to be included in the meetings that he was setting up. He wanted to help write the documents that he was told to organize. And after a couple months, he was given the opportunities he asked for and really did a great job. In fact, his work was quite impressive. Dare I say he even began to overshadow myself and my colleagues...
The guy everyone was unsure of, was now one of the favorites within the office.
Then one day in the spring, our clients were visiting for a huge meeting. We all had confidence in our team to pull through and really impress. Our presentation was extremely well rehearsed. We all had our own separate parts and the utmost faith in one another that we would knock the socks off of these marketing directors.
Then came the actually presentation...the thing that all of our work for the year culminated in. And when it was the guy from Pitt's time to speak, a cat the size of a sabertooth tiger apparently latched onto his tongue.
He could not utter a single word.
He choked.
Needless to say, the rest of us had to pick up the slack. We all had to jump in and take over his part of the presentation that we vaguely had remembered due to our rehearsals and previous internal meetings.
About a week after, he quit.
Although the last I heard, he did the same thing around last March at his new company.
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