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Remember thatj coworker that I shutdown over the summit and humiliated for mentioning the TFG's name in mixed company.
We still got a lot o' love. He calls me from time to time for my no bullshit assessment of things, "you always tell me the truth."
"Maybe these 'games' you are referring to are all in your head?"
He really wanted to know if I were going for the now open manager position. I said I liked the guy acting like my boss as my next boss and would welcome it being official. 1/2
@SECRET_ASIAN_MAN I had three bulletproof honorable coworkers I could tell anything and many more who only posed as that. Coworkers are like the Earth's tectonic plates, they move and shift, proceed with caution.
My ambitions are architecture and engineering, not management. I've done most things and can do many things...but I never worry about my job.
He wanted to discuss politics. If not that office politics. If not that...
"Sports!" I offered to him. "Politics taints relationships. It makes us see each other as political parties instead of human beings ."
So, with the politics dispensed with...we talked about sports.
So, yeah the conversation was short after that.