Should I stay or should I go?

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I was writing this post at 3:34am on a morning in the middle of February.

I was tossing and turning all night, even listened to a Neil deGrass Tyson Podcast (because as entertaining and informative as he is, he always makes me glaze over) 🥱

The reason I can’t sleep is that someone I have been working with has questioned my expertise and experience in:

1. The work that they have engaged me to do for them for over a year without any such questions, and
2. The industry in which this business operates

I could be more explicit at this point, but my lips are sealed 🤐 not because I have an iron-clad NDA in place, I don’t even need one, it’s just how I roll.

I act with integrity. Always.

My response?

Well, I detailed the highlights from my 20+ year career in HR, sliding my way up the greasy corporate pole in the process. I even used phrases like “Leading Transformational Change Programmes”, “Increasing Employee Engagement” and threw in some 7-figure numbers, stopping only when I almost gagged on my vomit from the word salad 🤢

Why did I feel the need to justify my response? I shouldn’t have.

I don’t need to put up with this 💩 and neither do you — EVER!