Talking to a trusted colleague today about sticky situations where the full court press may be on against you, I garnered some good advice. Full court press? That's a situation where extra pressure, scrutiny, or investigation may be conducted. Although I believe these situations are good and make us better, there are times when a bad result can be devestating to a person or an organization.
He relayed his experience to me: spend some time getting to know the other person. Or, simply shoot the bull with them. "If a gorilla is hungry to eat you, go ahead and feed it something else for a while and make it happy. Then, the gorilla probably will forget he wanted to eat you."
If I can show genuine interest and care in the other person, the likelihood that they will make it tough on me diminishes because a name, a face, a story is now associated. Without this context, the full court press will be done by an investigator who doesn't care what the ramifications of his actions are because no one he knows will be affected. In context, the investigator will be careful to help and not to hurt his friend.
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