Pulling a Jerry Maguire
[VOICE NARRATOR]: It was Tuesday and Tarik would just start his working day at a local Fiber-Company. His job was to answer the phone of people who just got their Internet connection delivered or had problems with establishing a working connection.
It was a classic call-center with phony characters who'd snitch about their colleagues to get ahead, incompetent supervisors and apathetic students who just not wanting to see the dead-end job they stranded in. Most of them had no choice because they all had expenses that had to be paid and they were willing to give up their time and energy to serve the annoying, violent and ignorant customers.
A midst the hell fire of complaining customers and the horrible working environment, he suddenly had an epiphany how to actually change the world for the better. He would use words instead of actions. Words what could make people shiver and laugh, think and correlate. Words with meaning, words what would form a reality in the minds through a movie-script.
But before he could initiate his plan, he would execute another plan to get himself released from the hellhole he found himself in. He lived by the credo:”Those who fail to plan, become subject to another man's plan.”
After months of repetitive work, a horrible supervisor who would forbid the consumption of yogurt at his desk and an unhealthy working environment, Tarik planned his way out to work on something bigger and more satisfying.
He wrote down his ideas and suggestions in an email to all his colleagues, the supervisors and everyone else connected to the company. He wrote about the company, how he felt getting f*cked by the job-hunters, his supervisor, the increasing control and distrust towards the IT-specialists and the phony slime ball colleagues.
On a Friday-night he sent his email to all the employees of the company. Because of the length of the rant some would even sent it to their private account to read it. Tarik's email caused a chain reaction of joy and surprise with those who could not say the same but shared the same feelings. He pulled a “Jerry Maguire” so to say. He got up, made a scene and walked out..
The next Monday he was invited to the head-office to explain himself about his actions and why he called his supervisor an ant-fucker. He said that he felled compelled to do this. It was just an email with his feelings and suggestions regarding security. The supervisors felt it was their duty to fire Tarik to set an example for future dissidents. Tarik's plan worked out perfectly. Well according to Tarik, that is.