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My coworker asked me to come into work early today and indicated that it was very important. She said there would be bagels and orange juice, but it seemed something else was in between the lines. I printed some directions to the office over on MapQuest to avoid the highways, hoping that I could get an edge on how long it takes to get to work since I wouldn’t be able to take the HOV lanes.

In the end, I got to work in just under two hours and arrived thirty minutes later then I was supposed to. I was a little down because I had thought what ever was going to happen, already did and that I had let her down as well as my manager.

I got to doing my work and had to hunt for another coworker for some debugging assistance. I couldn’t find him until my managers door opened. He walked out and the manager as well as the director asked me to come into the office.

They filled me in that the meeting was to be held on the hour and that my coworker and I would be recognized for our contributions to the team. Our database developer had left us last year and I took over his tasks and kept up on my own stuff as well. I have a deep knowledge of many of the projects we work in both the database and programming code.

Of course, everyone wanted a speech and I was clueless as to what to say. I acknowledged that one of my coworkers worked through a lot of things with me and that the team is a really good help as well. The other coworker who got an award helped save me from the torment. We all had bagels and orange juice.

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