Missing Brilliance

#94: Out Sick

I'm at home on sick leave. I should be resting and downing lots of vitamins but so far, I've only succeeded in taking a cat nap after getting home from this one critical meeting that I just had to attend, and downing large volumes of Coke Light.

I'm happy to be away from the office. Lately, the more I meet with our bottler, the better I feel. I was warned during my interviews that they were a difficult bunch to deal with. Heck, not as difficult as reasoning with people who insist on intellectualizing what would otherwise be purely practical matters. It shouldn't take Plato to explain why a consumer has to buy your product. You just have to appeal to your consumers with a relevant set of perceivable benefits and they'll know what to do with you.

It's probably because of unnecessarily complicating simple things that people in our office prematurely age in appearance. You look at most of the people there and fail to get a sense that they love what they're doing. It's more like they're working because they're getting paid huge truckloads of money and they need to get high ratings to get truckloads more. It's like watching worker ants. I don't know if that's a fair assessment. I probably just miss having someone to look up to at the workplace. None has been able to inspire me so far.

You see, it's been quite sometime since I've had a "that's right!" moment with a superior - having your viewpoint seriously considered then having something more brilliant thrown back at you that you can't help but just say, "hey, that's right!" Here, I've had a couple of arguments with my bosses. For some reason, they always win. And this is not because my arguments have no merit but maybe because I know that they're not open to perspectives other than their own. You can only argue for so long before you get tired and tell yourself that hey, at the end of the day, they occupy higher posts and they're paid more; I can only say my piece. Without a "that's right!" moment, I move on because we all have to move on at some point, right?

So here I am probably feeling more sick than I really am. Much more than rest and vitamins, I think I need to get inspired by true brilliance soon. Till then, I'll blog and get fevers.

To the bosses that I used to admire and now miss, I dedicate this post... and this sick leave.