My friend was being interviewed today for an internal promotion. There was some unfairness about the process and to cheer her up, I jokingly said I'd try some voodoo (the popular and unauthentic version of it) to put off the competition. At home, I created a Voodoo Potato Man, sticking the contents of the cutlery drawer into it and emailed a photo of it to her. She found it funny. Two candidates withdrew. One of the interviewees had a flat tire. Voodoo Potato Man had worked! Another, quite odious candidate, completely buggered up his presentation and test because of a technical hitch leaving my friend to sail through to the final two. Of course, her success is nothing to do with Voodoo Potato Man, but it did lighten things up a bit.
My line manager came back to work after a few months of sick with stress. My instinct says he's back too soon. But still, sickness isn't a bad thing and being off with stress can be an opportunity. Mental illness is so underated.
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