Win-Winning

In a win-win situation, you can’t lose – right? Ironically as of today, that’s where I find myself at work. Nothing has really changed yet, but in a sense everything has changed.

I fired off my e-mail to the big boss today, copying my boss on the message. I have yet to get an acknowledgment.

BUT in the meantime I have suddenly realized that no matter what happens, I WIN. If they decide to take me seriously and reverse a couple of key decisions and start listening to me in general, I will perhaps stay a while longer, but not a long while. If they don’t, I can start planning the greatest happy hour ever and set a date for freedom.

Interestingly enough, my boss didn’t mention this at all in our weekly one-on-one meeting today. She was more interested than usual in what I was working on and the status of everything. In a meeting she and I attended at 12 noon (believe it or not), she actually asked my opinion in front of the group of big-wigs.

One of the first things I did this morning was to sit down with 2 colleagues who as of a month ago were firmly in my court and who failed to back me up last week to find out what had happened. The bottom line was they had decided to back the boss instead of the right thing to do. They will not be coming to the happy hour.

I went through the rest of the day feeling like a cloud had been lifted and with it the weight of the world. I think WIN-WIN has such a nice ring to it, don’t you?