The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel Your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy

Chapter 16

Who’s on the Bus

It was Monday and this Monday was very different from last Monday. Instead of dread George felt a nervous excitement. He had taken an earlier bus to work today so he could be in his office in time to receive the bus tickets from his new passengers. He greeted each person as they walked, one by one, into his office, handed in their tickets, and told him they were on his bus. All of them except Michael, Jamie, and José. The three of them walked in together, and immediately George knew something was up. He could tell they were nervous and that they weren’t holding bus tickets. I bet they are too scared to come in alone so they decided to pack together like a bunch of wolves, he thought.

“We think your bus is going to crash and we don’t want to be on it when it does,” Michael bluntly told him.

“We need this job,” Jamie said nervously.

“Who’s we?” George asked.

“All of us,” they said in unison as they looked around at each other.

“Your bus is going to go up in flames,” Michael said.

The words hit George like a dagger in the heart. Michael and Jamie always had given him problems and he expected they wouldn’t get on his bus. But José was a big surprise. José had always worked hard for him. And the biggest surprise of all was that José chose to stay off the bus while Larry and Tom, the two biggest problems of all, handed in their tickets and decided to get on. ...