I’m leaving a totally normal one-on-one with Josh the next day when he says, “Oh, by the way, there’s some chatter going around that Jasper and Grant felt intimidated by how you talked to them in a meeting yesterday.” He’s already turned back to his desktop monitor when he speaks. I sigh and sit back down. “Chatter from where?” “Just around,” he says, as I knew he would. Josh’s habit is to ascribe any negative feedback to the ether, so instead of knowing whom to go have a grown-up conversation with, you get to walk around wondering which of twenty possible people are mad at you.
