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How not to win over colleagues

So last week I was eating lunch at Google as I do every so often for business (meeting up with my AdWords rep) or pleasure (hanging with friends). And, as usual, I had a delicious, delightful lunch.

A few minutes later, I arrived at my afternoon consulting gig around the corner, all smiles. I had e-mailed my colleagues there that I'd be in a bit later than usual on a Friday... "around 2:30 after some errands and lunch" and here I was, happily waltzing in to work about 2pm.

My colleagues, though, looked at me funny.Finally, one said, "Google, eh? Hmm!" whereupon I recalled with quite a bit of embarrassment that I was still wearing a prominent Google Guest sticker.

Considering that there's at least a minor rivalry between the firms, this oversight of mine wasn't exactly the best way to win friends and influence people. Oops!

- Blathered by Adam on Sunday, April 10, 2005 at 13:24 [ Permalink | Trackback ]
- Filed under Workplace • Google
- Commented on by 2 folks so far. Scroll down and see for yourself (and join in the conversation!)

Comment from
ahmed

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hello you are very nice to see you new account about gmail

- Posted on Thursday, April 21, 2005 at 4:13 [ Permalink to this comment ]

Comment from
John
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Excellent thought regarding Gmail.

- Posted on Tuesday, March 4, 2008 at 23:51 [ Permalink to this comment ]

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