BattleSnail
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So an old colleague of mine, my former manager at my previous employer actually, had moved away to Austin about 4 years ago. Always like him, good guy.
Well he was back in town recently in my new employer's office (same line of work, direct competitor) looking for a job. He grew tired of Austin and wanted to move home. So I'm chatting and shooting the shit with him telling him how I came to leave the old place and took a job here blah blah blah and then this lady comes over who knows him from waaaay back before he worked at the other company, he actually worked here..if that makes sense....anyway...
she interjects into our conversation but it's cool bc she hasn't seen him in years and wanted to say hello all that...I've only been at this firm for under a year so I don't know everyone well yet and she's not in my direct group, but I always knew there was something real smug and douchey about her but never having really engaged her in conversation I couldn't put my finger on it...So she's talking to our mutual friend about Texas and wanting to come home and she says and I quote, "yeah I mean Austin is a really cool city but outside of Austin, like the rest of Texas is just really like umm Texas, you know just ass backwards, you know that gun toting stupidity". I chose to stay silent. Wasn't the time or place to get in a political debate with her and I'm being considered for a promotion where I could potentially become her boss in the next couple of months...so the less people who know about my guns the better and I definitely don't want anyone ever knowing about carry at work.
I bet she'd have shit herself if she knew she was standing next to someone who had a loaded gun on his hip under a polo shirt 2 feet away from her
Well he was back in town recently in my new employer's office (same line of work, direct competitor) looking for a job. He grew tired of Austin and wanted to move home. So I'm chatting and shooting the shit with him telling him how I came to leave the old place and took a job here blah blah blah and then this lady comes over who knows him from waaaay back before he worked at the other company, he actually worked here..if that makes sense....anyway...
she interjects into our conversation but it's cool bc she hasn't seen him in years and wanted to say hello all that...I've only been at this firm for under a year so I don't know everyone well yet and she's not in my direct group, but I always knew there was something real smug and douchey about her but never having really engaged her in conversation I couldn't put my finger on it...So she's talking to our mutual friend about Texas and wanting to come home and she says and I quote, "yeah I mean Austin is a really cool city but outside of Austin, like the rest of Texas is just really like umm Texas, you know just ass backwards, you know that gun toting stupidity". I chose to stay silent. Wasn't the time or place to get in a political debate with her and I'm being considered for a promotion where I could potentially become her boss in the next couple of months...so the less people who know about my guns the better and I definitely don't want anyone ever knowing about carry at work.
I bet she'd have shit herself if she knew she was standing next to someone who had a loaded gun on his hip under a polo shirt 2 feet away from her