Sometimes I forget that some quirks don’t traverse from one workplace to another. The other day I got yelled at by my boss for being slightly sarcastic in an internal email. At ICONZ internal sarcasm was used as a one of those ‘touchstone’ moments in a ‘Yes, sometimes work can suck but we are all in it together’ kind of way.

Here this is apparently not the case. It was unsettling, and even through I disagreed with the justification that was used (forwarding emails vs a single well written contextual email) if ICONZ taught me nothing else, it was when it’s appropriate to keep my mouth shut and accept what’s coming my way.

After I was HORRIBLY unsettled. I found it difficult to concentrate and trying to push through was difficult. Okay so it was a small reminder to pull my head in and I should suck it. But I was all restless and the sucking it in part wasn’t going so well. In the end I went to lunch slightly early and drove around till I ended up here:

It was cold, and grey and windy and WONDERFUL!

I’m not the kind of person who can just let shit that comes my way roll off my shoulder. I’m not unaffected by what goes on around me, so it was nice to get away and stand in the freezing wind and to relax a bit.

And it wasn’t till I was standing on the sand watching the seagulls that I realised that the yelling I got was horribly severe for a single line of sarcasm, and that perhaps my boss was having a horrible day and I had just copped the end of it.

Standing on the beach made it easier to hope that his day was going better.