My soul is still mine

It feels good to write this. I am not a corporate whore. I cannot be one.  For a time it did not appear so. For the last four months I have had a difficult time at work. There was tons of it, but that was and remains a non-issue. The work culture was pathetic (even for an Indian company), but that again was not too bad. But there were/and remain a couple of people who are insecure, who could not manage a brown paper bag, and who were made my mentors. I don’t blame these people. Their insecurities are their own, they have their own constraints. Its when they take it out on me that it becomes a problem. One specific person had been targeting me for the last two months. Today I stood up to him. I did not care about my job, my standing. What he did was not necessary, and was not professional. I tried to raise those issues, but then I decided to take a stand. It felt good. It is a wonderful feeling indeed when you realize you can still surprise yourself