From Donna's Desk:
The first answer is often the easiest one to give, not the most useful one to hear.
People are remarkably good at adjusting to discomfort. We normalize it, work around it, rename it, and keep going until someone asks the second question.
That is true of health, workload, morale, and just about anything else we would rather not make a fuss about.
Sometimes a good leader, friend, or coworker is simply the person who notices there may be more to the answer.
So I’m curious:
What have you called “fine” because you had gotten used to it?
Who in your life knows to ask one more question?
I’ll be here, reconsidering every casual “I’m good” I hear today.
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.
