How to Let Your Soul Die and Be Fake at Work — The Fun Way!: Just kidding. It was letting my soul die.
Wait, wait, hear me out. "Letting my soul die" sounds so negative, but it really doesn't have to be. Sure I'm saying "soul dying." You may call it "apologizing when you don't mean it" or "letting it go." Tomatoh, tomatah.
So anyway, at the time all this went down, I was dating a smart guy who advised me as follows: "Listen, Mandy, you've had your Come-to-Jesus moment, and now you need to man up and apologize."
It was what he didn't say verbally that I REALLY heard, though.
The subtext I inferred sounded a little like this: "Oh you silly little, special snowflake having your silly little, special snowflake office tantrum. As if you think that will help anything. Really? REALLY? You thought this was a good idea? When is it ever a good idea to back talk your boss? That's like, Being An Adult 101, dumbass. Now, let's go clean up your mess so we can enjoy our nice dinner like the two adults we are, and you can learn to pick your fucking battles like the rest of us sitting at the grown-up's table."
And I did. And nothing has been quite the same since.
Wait, wait, hear me out. "Letting my soul die" sounds so negative, but it really doesn't have to be. Sure I'm saying "soul dying." You may call it "apologizing when you don't mean it" or "letting it go." Tomatoh, tomatah.
So anyway, at the time all this went down, I was dating a smart guy who advised me as follows: "Listen, Mandy, you've had your Come-to-Jesus moment, and now you need to man up and apologize."
It was what he didn't say verbally that I REALLY heard, though.
The subtext I inferred sounded a little like this: "Oh you silly little, special snowflake having your silly little, special snowflake office tantrum. As if you think that will help anything. Really? REALLY? You thought this was a good idea? When is it ever a good idea to back talk your boss? That's like, Being An Adult 101, dumbass. Now, let's go clean up your mess so we can enjoy our nice dinner like the two adults we are, and you can learn to pick your fucking battles like the rest of us sitting at the grown-up's table."
And I did. And nothing has been quite the same since.