Home of the Soul Cookie

“But what, I think, stings the most is the absolute lack of acknowledgment for all the time and all the energy I’ve devoted to making the place a success over the last half-decade. That I’m a spectre - unseen, unheard, unheeded - in your recounting of its history shouldn’t really come as a shock; after all, I’ve grown painfully accustomed to having you ‘discover’ previously-rejected recommendations I’ve made. But it exists as it does because of what we - all of us - made it.

“So don’t say, ‘We appreciate your advice’ in that patronizing way.

“Say, ‘Thank you.’ Or, ‘We couldn’t have done it without you.’

“But, then, you don’t really believe that, do you?”