Wow, guys. Just wow.
I don't know who did this, but I can't tell you how much I appreciate it, and how much it just made my day.
Just to set the scene a little, and let everybody else know how great you guys really are: I work at a pretty intense company in the retail channel, and my store is supposed to have one general manager and three assistant managers, which allows me to focus on the part of the business for which I'm responsible. However, for a number of reasons, we just went down to having the general manager and myself to run the store... period. Not only that, but my counterpart in another store in the district left, so I'm now in charge of that location as well until that position gets filled. So it would be safe to say that my days have been very long, very busy, and often very stressful. (I do work with a
great bunch of people, though, and I have a A+++ boss, so that helps out tremendously).
I had a (somewhat contentious) meeting that started at 8am yesterday, and I didn't end up leaving my store until almost 10pm, so it was a pretty long day. I was talking to my buddy on the phone as I was driving home about driving down tomorrow after work (he lives in Spring Hill, ironically) to help him run cable for his new HT setup when I stopped to pick up my mail on my way back to my apartment. I had a package waiting for me, which was awesome-- I had preordered 3 albums in the previous two months, and two of them should be coming in any day now, and this should be one of the two-- a very welcome treat, even if I wouldn't be able to listen to it that night, as I had to be at work the next morning.
I'm still talking with my friend Josh as I get into the apartment and start to unload all my stuff. Being perpetually 11 years old and always excited about getting new music, I opened up the package I got, and was immediately confused: it was a gorgeous pair of headphones, and I didn't immediately recall when I had ordered them. (As a scatterbrained audio nut, I do occasionally order stuff-- usually music, although sometimes gear too-- that I forget about, so this is not
that farfetched). I then saw the message written on the inside of the box:
I just stopped talking mid-sentence. As a guy who (almost compulsively) verbalizes constantly, I am not often without words-- but I was here. Josh asked me what was wrong, and after a moment, I told him that nothing was wrong, and told him what I was looking at, and what it
meant. I knew I had to get to bed, but I wanted to listen to them for just a second at least, so I hooked them into the Yulong amp that Mbritt was kind enough to let me check out, and man... They sounded
great!!! I tried to hop on HF to throw a quick 'Thank you!!' on there, but my desktop is out for repairs, and my tablet occasionally takes the night off, and last night was one of those nights, so I had to pack it in until I got off work today.
Every so often, it's just really, really great to have your sense of camaraderie and general goodness reaffirmed, and that's what that moment was for me. I'm often not great at receiving nice things from others, but I hope that I have given you guys at least some sense of how truly, deeply appreciative I am of the kindness of this gesture. From the bottom of my heart, I want to tell all of you THANK YOU, and let you know how much this meant to me.
You guys just rock... I don't know what else to say.
Here's to you, guys.
-Burnley
