Coffee? Tea? Who- ME?

I was ‘counseled’ after a regional meeting because I offered to get others coffee when I was going for some myself.

It makes me appear weak, I was told. Subservient. I was to wait for coffee to be brought to me. Here’s the thing: I wanted coffee. I knew others wanted coffee. Coffee happened.

Could I have gotten all NLP and exerted enough cues to have someone bring me coffee? Probably. I know how that works.

But why would I have done that?

Just because you know influential tactics doesn’t mean you need to use them at every turn in the road. Or for every cup of coffee.