I have had a god-awful day. Today, I got the news that I didn't get a promotion that I had basically been promised. My best friend had bought me a "desk present" over the weekend and now it will sit on my home desk. I'm not going to lie and say that I'm not disappointed or sad or even angry because I absolutely am. But the thing is, I am also an adult and I have to suck it up and move on. This company has become a part of me, a family even and I am not going to let one stumbling block get in the way of that.
Today, I discovered that my coworkers are amazing people. Although some of them are self-serving pricks (what job doesn't have those people? Most have them in spades, even.) most of them are very caring, giving individuals. When the news came down from upper management that maybe they had jumped the gun and I wasn't going to be sitting in my nice big office by myself after all, they rallied around me while I walked around the building crying like a little girl. They are amazing people. And they are becoming amazing chosen family.
I don't have my best friends around me. One of them lives in New Jersey and the other lives in Ohio and I only get to see them once in a blue moon. I mostly rely on text communication to say "hi" to either of them. So having a real, live, breathing human being hanging out next to me, draping their arm over my shoulders as I heaved big snotty tears down my shirt... was surreal.
Now I am going to spend the rest of my evening moping, sulking, crying and snotting while eating copious amounts of fried chicken and mashed potatoes; and perchance enjoying the guilty pleasure of America's Next Top Model. If this doesn't make me feel better about myself, I don't know what will.
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