I keep getting an anonymous e-mail from someone claiming to want to help me lose weight and stop my colleagues from talking about me.
“Hi there, I hate to be the one but when people continue to talk about your weight issue, we’ll it just disgusts me,” the e-mail said. “Whether you know it by now, people are always chattering about one another at work but you come up more than enough.”
Well, she’s right about the fat part, I thought, and continued reading.
“What I am saying is you need to do something and I was saved a year ago and maybe I can make the same difference,” the e-mail continued. “I am encouraging a change, not only in the chatter around here but in you personally.”
Thing is, I happen to know my colleagues don’t talk about me because I’m fat. They talk about me because I’m a fat jerk.
Now if the e-mail would have said something like: “Hi there, I hate to be the one to bring it up, but everybody around here thinks you’re a stupid, overly opinionated, loud, blowhard, fat jackass,” well, that one might have sucked me in.
