If Nothing Changes…

After Brittany and Fluffy left, Weedman poked his head into my cubicle. He’d relapsed over the weekend while working on a project for the Navy.

“Don’t you have filters to keep out porn?” I asked.

“I was looking for an analogy about everyone on a ship needing to pull together.  I ended up at a Pinterest board called ‘BootyBoat.’ I was sunk after that.”

“You train the military and major corporations on getting their systems to interact.  Why do you even need Pinterest? And why don’t you just filter it?”

“It’s my source for off-the-wall ideas and stories. I use it to jar my thinking,” Weedman said, staring at his shoes.  “I thought about filtering it, but I think I’m just going to be careful when I’m on it.”

I could have argued with him. I could have pointed out he wasn’t asking my advice, he was just looking for me to say he just needed to be more careful. He wanted me to co-sign his b.s. 

“If nothing changes, nothing changes,” I said, quoting an AA slogan. Weedman shrugged. I worried we would be having this same conversation again in the near future. He was unhappy he’d relapsed, but he didn’t seem ready to change.

Today I’ll remember the slogan “if nothing changes, nothing changes.”

Burnout Training ©2018 by Ken Montrose

Burnout Training is a work of fiction. Any similarity between the characters and anyone you might know is purely coincidental.

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