I don't make a lot of personal posts so please bear with me. #Rufus hasn't been doing well for the past week or so. I mean, he's 13 (at least), and has slowed down due to age, but the past week or two he's been acting like every movement is a Herculean effort. A few times in the past couple of weeks his rear legs have given out on him completely to where I've had to pick him up and carry him which is, in itself, telling. Rufus has always hated being carried and struggled continuously when I did so. Yesterday while petting him I noticed two golf-ball sized things up under his chin. Now, they may be benign lipomas as Rufus is covered with them (one one each thigh, one on each shoulder, one on his chest and a few smaller bumps here and there) or they may be indicative of something else. I'm no vet and aside from emergency medic battlefield training I have no medical experience whatsoever, but these new things seem to be where your or mine lymph nodes are located....
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Another, more recently, became very disgruntled and created a hostile work environment when I started receiving all the praise for how well the department was being run. As her immediate supervisor told me, "This whole dept. would have fallen apart if not for you." Apparently they were fully aware of strengths and weaknesses. She tried to get me I to trouble and HR sided with me. At that point she said my very presence in the office threatened her.
Her last gambit was, "the guy is scary." With no proof, evidence or witnesses that I'd been anything less than professional with her. But, once she was "scared" HR had no choice.
I've had good and bad bosses who were men, too. More bad than good.