Moriah worked in just one company her entire life, only to quit one day after a big fight with her boss. A couple of weeks later, a twist of fate had her return to the company and rise up the ranks once more, now with the capacity to fire her old supervisor.
Right after graduating from university, Moriah received a management trainee position at a big corporation. She was destined for greatness, as the role was meant for her to rapidly move up the career ladder and be trained by the best in the business.
Through the years, she was always appreciated and respected by upper management. She brought great results for the company and was the reason for a lot of their successful campaigns.
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One day, however, a new employee engagement manager was hired. His role was meant to create different programs that promoted work-life balance for the company’s employees and to create useful incentives to inspire them to work better.
To get to know everyone working in the company and their interests, he decided to do one-on-one interviews with everybody. When it was Moriah’s turn, she happily walked inside the new manager’s office with a smile on her face.
“Hello, Mr. Drew,” she said, extending a hand for him to shake. “I’m Moriah, I’m the Senior Manager for Customer Experience.”
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“Hi,” Mr. Drew said without moving from his seat. “Let’s skip the pleasantries. Please sit down,” he said, motioning to the seat in front of his table.
“Well that’s rude,” Moriah thought to herself. She assumed that Mr. Drew was tired of all the people he had interviewed before her, so she let it slide.
“So, what do you bring to the table? I’d like to know about you and your role a little bit more,” Mr. Drew asked.
“As I’ve said earlier, I’m Moriah. I’ve been working in this company for 35 years now. I handle customer experience,” she began to explain.
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Before she could say some more, she was distracted by the wild expression on Mr. Drew’s face when she mentioned she had been with the company for 35 years. “That’s...
