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The Power of the Word Interesting With an Emoji
A colleague shared me his Facebook password — you can get whatever you want (even from you)
I was the one who can do anything to please people.
A person I connected with to learn from: “Are you afk?”
Me [in the head]: I should be this …okay. Uhmm, what can I be? I am ‘as fun ….’? No no, I am ‘as frank kk….’? No dude, that guy is smart, it’ll be something genius. Okay, I am ‘aastoundingly foolish k’? Oh, what am I thinking! He’ll never say that to me. By the way, what could be with that k? Astoundingly foolish kkilogram? That’s odd! One sec, I didn’t say him anything bad, still, could that be a curse word? I heard some popular abbreviations, like wtf, omfg but afk doesn’t seem to be on the list. Ohh, afk too has the letter f in it, like the other two. No no no no, this can’t be it.
<After some time, I remember we have Google>
“Aah, away from keyboard. Yeah, I can be this. I am away from keyboard.”
I never made it visible to anyone I am a fool. That I don’t know much. That I suck. I made sure I am perceived as the smartest, no matter what.
In our daily scrum, “Does anybody have any general questions?” shouts our scrum master. I’m silent. So is everyone…
