What was the best compliment you’ve received? – An interesting thing to reflect given to us by the daily writing prompt.
I guess life has been good for me because I’ve received some nice ones. So, this very lucky person will share a few below
Family
The first one that came to mind is the one I got yesterday from my granddaughter, “You’re fun Papa, I love you.”
Almost simultaneously I thought about my own children saying, “thanks for being a great dad, I love you.” Followed by big hugs.
From my better half – “I love you”
A few of my in-laws who shared in the caregiving of their parents thanked me for stepping up and helping in their care and sharing our home. It was my brother-in-law whose words were preceded by a firm handshake as he expressed his thanks for taking such good and loving care of them and stepping up so much. And every so often he will thank me again. I know it meant something special to him.
Professionally –
I’ve gotten lots of nice complements over my career and those are the things that really kept me going over my career. That personal appreciation for the hard work and knowledge. But one always makes me smile because I finally felt I had the admiration of my future boss.
A major system had gone down on my way home and I had to turn around and come back. None of the UNIX Admin leads on it were available. This is back when we still had pagers. Directors were all around and furious and wanted the system online YESTERDAY. I sat down and got the thing back up but I ignored what I was being told to do by the Director because I knew it was WRONG. He wanted the system to be brought up in the wrong order. I pretended to do what he wanted while doing what I knew was right.
The Marine manager of that group called in just as the system was coming online and asked what happened. I told him and I believe his complement was “Good job, nice Balls, damn good job, show me how you pulled it off tomorrow” with excitement I never heard from him. He hired me about a year or two later as a UNIX Admin.
