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When You Pretend to Be the Underdog, People Lifts You Up
What’s fascinating is: they love doing it
A delete button gave me a hard slap in my dry face after a good night's sleep.
Our product manager tags the video editor and asks him: “What do you think should we do in this regard?”
It was a discussion going on between them for a copyright violation we got on our youtube channel. I didn’t know anything about copyright violation but I have to show my smartness right after seeing the message: “We should delete the video right away.” “Let’s delete it now.”
Someone instantly deleted my reply.
That hurt. I speak up: “Why did you delete my message?” followed by tagging everyone so that I can disturb whoever deleted my message and get him to notice my work from the important task he is doing.
Nobody replied. Everybody ignored. My message went deep in the grave of messages with no hope of coming back.
I was sad about it.
Until one day, I understood why that happened when I needed to know something about the CEO for an investor pitch, which to act smart and pretend I know everything, I searched it on Google, scrolled through his decades of social media posts for ten hours but still couldn’t find the answer.
