I'm Nobody! Who are you? (260) | ||
| by Emily Dickinson | ||
I'm Nobody! Who are you? Are you – Nobody – too? Then there's a pair of us! Don't tell! they'd advertise – you know! How dreary – to be – Somebody! How public – like a Frog – To tell one's name – the livelong June – To an admiring Bog! | ||
The Panda Bear has put her poem on the door of her cubicle. The Panda Bear 'attitude towards her office over the last few months has been-yes the Panda Bear acknowledges is that she is a low person on the office totem pole-but she does not care; the Panda Bear believes that there are joys of being on the bottom of the ladder that those on the top will never know. Probably because of the death of Father Panda Bear was in a bad mood all last week at work. The work load was as heavy as ever.
"Oh you miserable wage slave", the Panda Bear was thinking to herself. How sad and short is life, the Panda Bear would think to herself. When we are young we are to stupid to enjoy life, when we are in the middle, we are too busy working and when we retire we are old and sick. The Panda Bear pondered the great existential problem;everyone we know is going to die and we will also die.
The Panda Bear works in a small office. The office has two main divisions The Panda Bear will call them Division A, Division and Division C. The Panda Bear works in Division C. The rumor is that Division A considers themselves better than Division C;they do have a higher job grade. Division A is salaried while Division C is on the time clock.. The Panda Bear was told by the Director of the office is that she could never be promoted to Division A.
When the Panda Bear was in a bad mood last week, she thought who cares about Division A. (To be honest, Division A workers are nice to the Panda Bear on an individual basis so the Panda Bear feels obligated to be nice to them. However, the Panda Bear does not feel that excuses their attitude of superiority to Division C).
Father Panda was a modest person. It came to a surprise to those who knew him best that he changed the the way some atoms, photons and mathematical operators are used in the sciences. In part out of pride in Father Panda and in part to show off to Division A, the Panda Bear e-mailed to them Father Panda's list of accomplishments. The Panda Bear thought no one in Division A probably is related to someone as smart as Father Panda. The Panda Bear wanted everyone to think how smart she must be even if she inherited even one tenth of Father Panda's intelligence.
The Panda Bear has decided her whole approach to her coworkers will be one of intelligent humility. She will not be bitter(Ha!) at the seventy-eight positions that she has applied for within her company for which she was turned down. The Panda Bear knows she is a smart person despite her lack of worldly success.
The Panda Bear is seen as being nice person. However, at times the Panda Bear feels that nice guys/gals finish last.
"The Panda Bear was told by the Director of the office is that she could never be promoted to Division A." ---This line was very mean and uncalled for. I wonder how somebody that says something like this gets to be Director in the first place!
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