When Negotiations Fail

The New Boss forwarded me yet another email from the outside agency about the burnout training. They wanted to renegotiate the length of the training.  He’d added a profanity-laced note.

I texted him back, ‘Thanks for the royal comments.’

He texted me ‘Royal?’

‘Every third word ends in ‘_king,’ I texted back. He sent me an angry emoji.  I sent him and the agency a message saying I would train for five hours on last two weekdays in October, charge $1000, keep the copyrights, and require them to contact me if they wanted to use the tape of the presentation.  I didn’t add the words ‘take it or leave it’ but the message was clear.

Recovery had taught me there was a time to stop negotiating. Towards the end of my drinking days I tried to negotiate with alcohol. I would only drink on weekends. I would limit myself to four beers a night. No booze until after all my schoolwork was done. It never worked.

I gave myself a ‘take it or leave it’ deal. I’d take or leave drinking. I left it behind, and life has been better ever since.

Today I’ll stop negotiating with my addictions and other bad habits.

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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