A rather nice thing happened to me today. I was meeting a friend for lunch and Friend arrived fresh out of a meeting with her supervisor. I was expecting a degree of frustration, but as it turns out she was in fact, rabid. Anyway, she spent a half hour or so expounding at volume and length about the short comings of her supervisor. This isn't the nice thing, it's coming.
Friend discovered she was late and disappeared with some speed, feeling rather buffeted (not at all in a bad way, Friend, just a bemused caught on the hop sort of way) I said 'bye' in a rather small voice to Friend's rapidly retreating back. Now, we were sitting outside and had been sharing a bench with another random person. In the wake of Friend's departure, the girl we were sharing the bench with couldn't stifle a certain degree of sniggering, which she apologised for.
I said not to worry about it since given the volume I don' t think she could have avoided overhearing without technological aid. (It's not like anyone's passing on state secrets anyway.) She goes on to say that it's nice to know other people have supervisor issues aswell. We then passed a very pleasant ten minutes, providing mutual empathy and support about how useless and often hindering supervisors tend to be. As I say, it was nice.
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