The Kabuki Play 3

Kabuki is a traditional form of Japanese theater that portrays the lives of people who lived during the Edo period (1600-1868). While it's subject matter is primarily historical, Kabuki's extraordinary spectacles of color and sound through acting, dancing and music still symbolize contemporary life.

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HISTORY OF "THE KABUKI PLAY"

  • The original "Kabuki Play" writings exposed a brash inner monologue as I struggled through the trials and tribulations as a college student. Broken friendships, irritating dorm-mates and akward trips home between semesters kicked off the first "Kabuki Play" series. However, college didn't last forever and "the real world" was right around the corner with drama ten fold.
  • "The Kabuki Play 2," a darker and more disturbing account, told the unsettling story about my first job after graduating from college, it being one of the biggest trainwrecks in the history of "The Kabuki Play." After being caught in the middle of 10 consecutive firings in less than two years and being stuck with four pisspoor bosses, I decided that I'd had enough. So, I quit my job and cut off all the negativity in my life, and moved two hours away from home to start my life over.
  • With a new job, my own apartment and a new beginning, "The Kabuki Play 3" picks up where the second series left off and revisits my inner monologue as I try to leave the past behind me and spread my wings.

Monday, February 14, 2005

2 Sides to Every Story

Well, I had a VERY INTERESTING conversation with my boss today! I can honestly say, although I don’t really trust her or believe what she says; it really helped to clarify some things. I am by no means taking sides by repeating what I heard, but if you’ve kept up on my past journal entries, you can draw your own conclusions.

According to her, the recently fired employee wasn’t exactly what he made himself out to be. The 700 phone calls he often claimed he made on a weekly basis NEVER happened. They know because my supervisor got his phone log, which confirmed they never were made.

The publicity “hits,” or generation of news in the media, he claimed “were his” weren’t ALWAYS his. In his weekly media reports to the president and my supervisor, he often exaggerated and stole credit for hits from other members in the department. Many claims of “hits in progress” or things he was “working on” were false. They never got done because there was NO outcome. Basically, to sum it all up, the work he was doing wasn’t being done, and when questioned about it, he became hostile.

Knowing he was being cornered, he cried racism and sexual harassment, because he knew he couldn’t be fired (by law) having filed a claim with the Human Resources department. She admitted to treating him differently than the rest of us (in the PR department) because she sensed his wrongdoing. Knowing they were on to him, he took her questioning as racism.

The thing that scares me is I feel like he honestly believes that what happened to him was racist. I personally have not seen or heard any racial or sexual discriminatory behavior. Is my place of work entirely in the right? No. Was the fired employee in the right? No.

Frankly, I don’t think he has a case nor does he have substantial evidence to found his claims. This is going to be interesting as it progreses.

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