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I was getting ready to leave. Over one meal, all the questions I\u2019d had were finally cleared up.<\/p>\n\n

I thought you and Y were on the same side.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n

Honestly, that was quite a misunderstanding. Maybe I was pretty good at playing dumb, and fairly thick-skinned too.<\/p>\n\n

Y\u2019s shortcomings as a manager were common knowledge; it was just that nobody wanted to say it outright. I often heard about things he had approved that went wrong, only for him to blame his subordinates in the end. (Shrug.) Working in both administration and sales under him, I was the first to take the brunt of it. It was easy for him to keep putting pressure on me.<\/p>\n\n

Today we went to one of my favorite places in Jiaxing, Liang\u2019an Coffee.<\/p>\n\n

Clean and unpretentious.<\/p>\n\n

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Sometimes I think of it as a kind of camouflage, before you know who\u2019s a friend and who\u2019s not.<\/p>\n\n

After all, I\u2019d taken the blame for plenty of things that weren\u2019t my fault, and everyone had seen it.<\/p>\n\n

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We were both Taiwanese managers trying to make our way far from home. Over some grilled skewers, we smiled and let bygones be bygones.<\/p>\n\n

Until next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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