I’ve managed to go nearly a month without a single post; which mind you was harder than it sounds. I started many posts, but each and every one inevitably was lost to the chaos of work and life.
I’ve thought a lot about life and where different steps take you. Can one step in this direction still lead you in that direction? It’s interesting the way our lives develop and how simple changes can result in big impact.
I looked back on the last weekend with irresolution. Was it a good weekend or a bad one? Did the steps I took this weekend put me towards the life I want now, or the life I want five years from now? Does it all really matter in the long run? It’s all a moot point until you reach five years from now and kick yourself in the ass because it really did matter.
I figured out at work that I have no idea how to work with people who don’t like me. It’s like I just stand there looking dumfounded at them wondering why. Why don’t they like me? Everyone else here likes me. I try hard to please everyone and work like a raging machine to meet my deadlines early. I mind my own business. Why don’t they like me?
Thirty minutes later they still don’t like me.
Last week we had scheduled financial cross training because of a new hire who didn’t know how to reconcile some of our financial reports with bank statements. This is very important to our job. I asked a very important question so she could hear the answer, and man who doesn’t like me bites my head off for interrupting his training, then blissfully goes on the answer the five other questions posed by other interrupters. Hmm…interesting. I might have accidentally let it get the better of me and slipped out a bad word or two under my breath. Checked out my boss with my peripheral vision, she isn’t looking up.
After the fact I asked her if there were any classes I could take outside the office for “How to work with people who hate you and want to run you over in the parking lot”.
There are none.
In the end, said man is being let go very, very soon; and I am slotted to take a two day class on how to work with difficult people. It was the best we could find.
I’ve thought a lot about life and where different steps take you. Can one step in this direction still lead you in that direction? It’s interesting the way our lives develop and how simple changes can result in big impact.
I looked back on the last weekend with irresolution. Was it a good weekend or a bad one? Did the steps I took this weekend put me towards the life I want now, or the life I want five years from now? Does it all really matter in the long run? It’s all a moot point until you reach five years from now and kick yourself in the ass because it really did matter.
I figured out at work that I have no idea how to work with people who don’t like me. It’s like I just stand there looking dumfounded at them wondering why. Why don’t they like me? Everyone else here likes me. I try hard to please everyone and work like a raging machine to meet my deadlines early. I mind my own business. Why don’t they like me?
Thirty minutes later they still don’t like me.
Last week we had scheduled financial cross training because of a new hire who didn’t know how to reconcile some of our financial reports with bank statements. This is very important to our job. I asked a very important question so she could hear the answer, and man who doesn’t like me bites my head off for interrupting his training, then blissfully goes on the answer the five other questions posed by other interrupters. Hmm…interesting. I might have accidentally let it get the better of me and slipped out a bad word or two under my breath. Checked out my boss with my peripheral vision, she isn’t looking up.
After the fact I asked her if there were any classes I could take outside the office for “How to work with people who hate you and want to run you over in the parking lot”.
There are none.
In the end, said man is being let go very, very soon; and I am slotted to take a two day class on how to work with difficult people. It was the best we could find.
2 comments:
Are you my alter ego? How strange... I feel your pain - AND I've taken that class!
Poor thing, I don't understand why he doesn't like you either. It's just because you’re super smart, incredibly cute, and learned how to do his job in a quarter of the time it took him. - RM
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