<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div>At The Workplace<div><br></div><div><div id="content" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;"><div itemprop="articleBody" class="articleBody" id="articleBody" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="poetry" style="border: 0px; margin: 14px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; max-width: 100%;"><p word_count="64" data-wc="64" style="border: 0px; margin: 16px 410px 32px 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(18, 18, 18); box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; display: block;">Today, I vow to regard my co-workers serenely, with</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; display: block;">Loving-kindness and without judgment.</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; display: block;">This one, who appears not to bathe and has a pungent odor,</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; display: block;">That one, who leads the e-mail clique trash-talking the rest of us,</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; display: block;">Are merely creatures caught in <span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">dukkha</span>, or suffering.</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; display: block;">May they one day be made whole and not so messed up,</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; display: block;">Or at least be transferred to another department. </span></p></div></div></div><footer class="ad-loaded" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px 410px 32px 0px; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-position: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; line-height: normal; widows: 1;"><section class="article-contributors" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><aside class="author-details" itemscope="" itemtype="http://schema.org/Person" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div rel="me" itemprop="url" class="author-details-wrap" style="border: 0px; margin: -10px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; display: flex; box-sizing: border-box; align-items: center;"><div class="author-masthead has-bio" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; flex: 1 1 0%; color: rgb(18, 18, 18);"><div class="contributor-info" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; text-rendering: geometricprecision; line-height: 1.4; letter-spacing: -0.2px; display: inline;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Jenny Allen</div></div></div></div></aside></section></footer><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div>
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