Growing Older vs.Growing Up

I had to go into the office yesterday afternoon. My boss wanted to talk to me about changes that will be taking place this year. She said that he had several people that requested to work from home. One lady in particular used me in her argument. She threw in the fact that I do a very good job from home. My boss knows his employees...He knows who can handle being left alone to do their job. She is one of those people that you have to constantly remind that she has a job to do. So when my boss refused to let her work from home. She was very upset. Her second argument was, she is a lot older than I am , and she has been working for the company longer. She escalated the whole thing. To sum it all up. I had to go in. All of my work is complete. Actually I am ahead of schedule. I made of it before I took my vacation. She was even more upset by the fact that once again my work had spoken for itself.

Some people will never reach that level of maturity in which the can mind their own business and take care of themselves...


My boss made a statement yesterday that helped me reach that conclusion...He said, "Why is it that you have so many people concerned about what goes on in your office, and you're the only one there?" I thought long and hard about that statement. I could have given the obvious answer...people are jealous. But I knew what he was looking for...I simply said, "People want what they can't have."

He smiled at me and I went back home to my cozy office and finished my work. Sometimes my best arguments are the ones that require no talking from me at all. All that craziness and what did she accomplish...She still has to be in the office everyday, and I work from home...Whew...I thought she had messed it up for me!

Don't you just hate it when people try to mess things up in your life when things are going great?