From Donna's Desk:
Competence has a downside.
Once people believe you can untangle things, they start handing you knots they made somewhere else.
Not because it is your job. Not because you have capacity.
Because you said one sensible sentence near the wrong doorway.
That is how half-formed ideas become assignments.
I believe in helping across departments. I also believe a department head should occasionally be allowed to remain in her department. Especially when the original problem still needs attention, not branding.
So I’m curious:
What project found you simply because you looked capable?
Have you ever been volunteered by someone else’s confidence?
I’ll be here, trying not to become a stakeholder by proximity.
Donna
If you’ve ever thought, “How am I the only adult in this room?” you’re among friends.
Donna Lake Comic is for the people who keep things moving while everyone else creates new complications. The ones who solve the problem, and keep their actual thoughts safely behind a very controlled facial expression.
It’s a sharp, heartfelt office comedy about corporate nonsense, competence fatigue, quiet leadership, and the strange amount of dignity required to function in an increasingly unreasonable workplace.
Welcome to Donna Lake.
