Corporate employee leaves anonymous negative review of coworker's book, coworker continually references 'mystery reviewer': 'She'd gotten some really challenging feedback'

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• No doubt about it, producing any written work of significant length is an intimidating undertaking (assuming you do it without AI, that is). It is only natural to feel proud when the deed is done, no matter the quality of the end product. It is a physical representation of hours upon hours of brainpower on whatever your chosen story or topic was. 

  Plenty of people who write books see them as their babies, and as such, they are pretty sensitive when someone has something to say about them that is not the most flattering. Those who know authors and read their work occasionally feel like they have to tread carefully.

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  I left an anonymous harsh review of my coworker's book two years ago and now I have to listen to her quote it in meetings

  
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• In this story, an employee found herself in a somewhat unusual situation when her colleague wrote a book on productivity and promoted it to their team in an email. She was not very impressed when she read it, and she ended up leaving a critical online review about it anonymously.

  The coworker not only read the review but felt the need to bring it up in the workplace. She said that the feedback had been “challenging” and even quoted some of it in meetings. The employee was amused to be in the middle of this awkward situation.

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