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2021-08-07

Shining Star of the Week (3)

tags: life

I used to work in a large, international company, stock market and all. It so happened that I had the interesting experience to be mentioned in the "Shining Star of the Week" list three times. And since the events were somewhat interesting, I decided to write them down. For the wonder and enjoyment of others and possibly myself as well.

Shining Star of the Week (1)

Shining Star of the Week (2)

Context

At the time I was working as a support engineer for the Unix operating system widely used at this company.

US calling, sort of

My name appeared in this list a third time. However, things weren't as clear cut this time around. I would still call it an extraordinary coincidence that this happened just a few days after I had announced something. I honestly do not remember what exactly it was. May have been one of these:

So no, I did not feel like a shining star at this third time. but heck.

It came to may attention that said managers nick name for me was "Mister Brutally Honest". Go figure.

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