Right back ‘atcha

This week I realized that the old adage “You reap what you sow” is another result of manifestation.  Now, I would like to report about something good that I did that came back at me, but no such luck.

It all started with a rotten day and my taking my frustration out on a innocent co worker who was simply reporting a drawn-out version of “no.”  She couldn’t do what I wanted, and so I lashed out and walloped her with insults;  she was not the cause of the system’s incompetence, but only the messenger.

I later apologized to her for my rude retorts, but only after I was caught with the help of a recorded call monitored by the quality assurance department, which happens to include my boss.

The next day, I mistakenly sent a customer to a wrong department, and was sent a nasty email from a member on the receiving end of my customer’s distressed email.  She admonished me for not being supportive of my customer, for dumping him on a department that could not address his problem.

She basically ripped me a new one, and rather than respond with something snotty and irrelevant to the situation, I took the email as an indication of what I’d manifested for myself:  just what I sent out.

The lesson:  what you send out with feeling–no matter whether it’s a good feeling or a bad, misdirected one–will come back to mess with you.  And then you know how it feels on the receiving end.