You'll Never Know!

Musings from Dennis #31: My first day at work at Takashimaya Singapore. (Also my first day at work since I returned from my honeymoon). I walked into the office but it wasn’t unfamiliar. I had come here every Thursday for the past 2 years as part of the retainer agreement between my employer Pico Art and this retailer. Of course I was the event management vendor and here was my client. No sooner as I walked in 2 'new' colleagues approached me, one at a time. “No issues between us right?” they both said smiling (one nervously). Of course in all graciousness I said of course none. You see, the first one was very mean to me just a few weeks before and treated me disrespectfully until I called her boss to complain. The other gave me an unreasonable deadline so much so that even if I had forgone sleep it still could not be delivered. Well their boss had been promoted and moved to another department, they hired me to take over and now these two along with others report into me. Fast forward 2 decades and on the flip side, the person we hired back at Fun Characters for Malaysia and reported into me years before ended up being the same person I had to pitch to for a license for our new Nick Jr preschool IP! Lesson in life? Treat everyone well and with respect, especially when we want to remain in the same industry. Very glad that no enmity exists and everyone became friends but it is just such an interesting reflection which I am sure many of you may have also experienced. I know that the people (not) mentioned here know who you are so shout out to you guys!