Fawlty Showers

Fawlty Showers

Ken Montrose Ken Montrose

Ken Montrose

Director of Training at Greenbriar Treatment Center

发布日期: 2020年10月20日
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Coach Bully

When I got to work Abigail was standing at Katy’s desk.


“All the doors are up,” Katy said to me, clearly pleased. “They installed them last night.”


“Finally,” Abigail said. For reasons I couldn’t fathom Randy had put her in charge of construction. “Now they need to finish the drywall without getting dust everywhere.”


There are people with high standards. Meeting their standards is always rewarding. They applaud your success, and push you when you failed. These folks are good coaches, whether involved in sports or not.

 Abigail wasn’t a coach.


Abigail’s standards could never be met. Whatever you did wouldn’t be good enough. She’d take credit for your successes, blame you for your failures, and never seem pleased in either case. Abigail was a bully pretending to be a coach.


Too many people spend years mistaking a bully for a coach. It never ends well.

 

Today I won’t mistake a bully for a coach.


Fawlty Showers ? 2020 by Ken Montrose

Fawlty Showers is a work of fiction. Any similarity between the characters and anyone you might know is purely coincidental.

Other works by Ken Montrose are available at:

·        www.greenbriartraining.com 

·        https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B001K8MG0S

·        https://www.pinterest.com/kenmontrose/mt-rose/

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