Conflict of Spirit
Over 18 months ago I had a talented designerworking with me on the very beginning of a complicated Childrens hospital design competition. We met with the client and they told us the medical planning layout I did could work. But hey, for all I knew they told the same thing to other competitors. Anyway, we were slammed at the time. The only people available was the talented designer and me. We reached out to some contract folks, but they were all busy. So I told the designer itâ€s just the two of us instead of the usual 3 to 5 people. At the time he was also going through a family crisis with his mother and he had gotten divorced a couple of months previous. So he told me he could not put in any extra time, so we had to decide that day to stop pursuing it.Â
The very next day he up and quits, and only gave us two days notice (actually not that unusual in China). A couple of months go by and we see in an online medical design journal that an independent team won the competition. It then dawns on me, thatâ€s my medical planning layout!!! A day later we find out that my former designer who had left my company, got two of his buddies and they cranked out the scheme and won the project! Needless to say, I felt greatly betrayed and angry. Plus that was a big contract to lose.Â
Yesterday, I learn from a friend of a friend that this designer has recently converted to Christianity. He showed me a picture of his baptism (full body style). Part of me still is very angry with him, I helped him a lot while he was going through his family crises. But part of me says I should reach out and congratulate him. I admit I am struggling with this.Â
What do you think?
The very next day he up and quits, and only gave us two days notice (actually not that unusual in China). A couple of months go by and we see in an online medical design journal that an independent team won the competition. It then dawns on me, thatâ€s my medical planning layout!!! A day later we find out that my former designer who had left my company, got two of his buddies and they cranked out the scheme and won the project! Needless to say, I felt greatly betrayed and angry. Plus that was a big contract to lose.Â
Yesterday, I learn from a friend of a friend that this designer has recently converted to Christianity. He showed me a picture of his baptism (full body style). Part of me still is very angry with him, I helped him a lot while he was going through his family crises. But part of me says I should reach out and congratulate him. I admit I am struggling with this.Â
What do you think?
"Don't, I say don't bother me dog, can't ya see I'm thinkin'?" Foghorn Leghorn
