Teamwork? Who ever made a fortune by teamwork? There’s only one way to make a fortune, and that’s to down the fellow who’s up against you." - M. Somerset Maugham from Cosmopolitans
Finding this quote couldn’t have come in a better time. I walked up to my cramped and crowded space in the office this morning and there I found on top of my keyboard a sort of a memo that instructs me to attend a seminar/training on Monday dubbed "Making Teamwork Work."
Suppressing a smirk, I pinned the paper somewhere within my field of vision so I won’t forget. Reminding myself to be thankful for having a reason to go to work hours earlier than I’m accustomed to, which will give me time to play badminton by night, I braced myself for the thought of eight excruciating hours I’d rather spend … wait, I’m actually bored of editing articles, or checking somebody else’s edits, day after day anyway. OK now I’m prepped! Time to practice my poker face.
Which brings me back to the above quote, which is actually a passage about poker. A game where you don’t need teamwork to win, because here "your hand is against every man’s, and every man’s is against yours." I stumbled upon that while surfing about Texas Holdem poker online. Texas, what? Apparently, it’s a variant of poker that is being played as tournaments worldwide. Texas Holdem online is the virtual version of that. Not that I’m saying that if I won’t show up on Monday in the training room, I’ll be home playing online Texas Holdem.
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