Fawlty Showers

Coach Bully

When I got to work Abigail was standing at Katy’s desk.

“All the doors are up,” Katy said to me, clearly pleased.  “They installed them last night.”

“Finally,” Abigail said. For reasons I couldn’t fathom Randy had put her in charge of construction. “Now they need to finish the drywall without getting dust everywhere.”

There are people with high standards. Meeting their standards was always rewarding. They applauded your success, and pushed you when you failed.  These folks were good coaches, whether they were involved in sports or not.

 Abigail wasn’t a coach.

Abigail’s standards could never be met. Whatever you did wouldn’t be good enough. She’d take credit for your successes, blame you for your failures, and never seem pleased in either case. Abigail was a bully pretending to be a coach.

Too many people spent years mistaking a bully for a coach.  It never ended well.

 

Today I won’t mistake a bully for a coach.

 

Fawlty Showers © 2020 by Ken Montrose

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

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