Little things really do mean a lot.  But appreciation isn’t much of a little thing to me anymore…its enormous.  Probably because I feel so very little of it these days, largely in my work but to some extent in my personal life as well.

Can’t even begin to describe how little appreciation there is at my office, for me or any of my coworkers.  Quite the opposite.  Long hours and honest effort are met with snippy, catty email messages.  It’s never how much we’ve gotten done, its what remains.  We have one of those bosses who is quite literally never happy.

I got home tonight after a ten-hour day and after relaxing for a bit, actually felt in the mood to take care of some work.  I felt that way for about thirty seconds after opening my email, which contained two messages from on high.  They were both unnecessarily ugly and basically ended with “…or else.”

Pretty deflating stuff.  After that I didn’t want a damn thing to do with work.  There’s been so much of this in the past several months that I don’t even want to try for these people anymore…its like there’s no point in it anyway.

Boss, if you’re reading this…you catch more flies with honey than with cyanide.