My dearest co-worker, Brian, is leaving our company today to head on to bigger and better things, and although I am so incredibly happy for him I am beyond distraught that one of my few friends at this company is leaving me.
Brian and I always joke that I have two personalities..one is the real me and one is friend me. Friend me is over the moon that Brian is leaving one company and venturing onto another opportunity that will allow him to grow and develop on his career path. Real me is pissed off and I just want to yell, kick, and scream - pretty much throw a 24 year old white girl temper tantrum. When he told me the news, over a Chick Fil A lunch because I literally do not know any other restaurants surrounding the office, my face just froze, which as Brian and I both know I have hard time controlling my facial expressions - I want to be happy for my friend, but how dare he leave me! He is the only person at this company that I can cry to, yell at, rant for days about the idiots in my life, I mean he is my emotional shrink, he knows this too people which makes this ten times harder.
When I am having a great day, a bad day, a sad day, or the worst day ever I can call Brian. I have made him go out to lunch with me several times - that boy loves him a chicken sandwich so, it's usually not too hard to convince him.
So we have this thing at work called "jabber" it is essentially g-chat or if you can recall the famous AIM, it's a way to chat so that our company can monitor what we say to each other...yeah...anyhow, there is a setting or a status that you can put that is DND - do not disturb, when it comes to Brian this DND means nothing too me and he accepts that cause he understands my need to tell him something at that moment is far greater than anything he is working on. I have called him with a funny story, something creepy, or an actual emergency and never once has he stopped me and said "Yo, I have my DND on DO NOT DISTURB me"...people..that is a true friend, and he is leaving me! Who else is going to listen to me rant, bitch, and complain about my life..
Now, I don't want to sound like this crazy, psycho, bitch, Brian has to put up with day in and day out, he has his fair share of venting time, well..to be honest it's probably 60/40..I will let you all figure out who gets 60% of the time..
Brian is one of the sweetest, funniest, smartest, and most genuinely nice guys I know. I honestly believe that no matter what his future holds he is going to kick ass and be a rockstar. He also might turn into a crazy old man who has like a thousand pugs, but if he does that he is going to be the absolute BEST crazy old man with a thousand pugs.
He also knows that the only reason he is getting this post is because that the amount of time we see each other is about to decrease dramatically, since we have lived about 2 minutes away from each other for about two years and we've hungout outside the office maybe..and I mean maybe a total of 3 times.
So Brian as you venture into the next chapter of your life I wish you the absolute best, I hope you one day actually silence the one who must be silenced, I hope on the first day of your new job that you wear only sweater sleeves, I hope whenever you go to Chick-Fil-A you think of me and of course the only employee to forever change our lives - Karen, I hope that you mud up when necessary, I hope that you get it gurllllaaaaa on your first day at your new job, I hope you get to live out your fantasy with a certain employee, I hope that you never have to write another email for St. John's again, I pray that you can always control your face, unlike myself and no one every has to ask you what is wrong with your face, and last but not least I hope you NEVER, EVER, EVER have to write another graphic email for Stonehill College (or whatever) again.
God Bless and Cheers to you Brian Ivananooneeverknowshowtospellyourlastname!
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