Killing Me Loudly
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Life's too short. This day job is killing me. I spent way too much time this week trying to find a different spot for an employee to sit, to give her more room and the ability to turn on a space heater without blowing a circuit breaker. You would not believe the hoops I had to jump through. I found two solutions, both of which were ultimately shot down. During one conversation with a non-decision-maker I wanted to say, "There's no logic in your statements. Do you honestly, in your heart, believe what you're saying or are you saying it because you think you're supposed to? Are you playing devil's advocate, perhaps?"
It boiled down to the fact that the CEO has final say and no one was willing to ask him. (Yes, I absolutely would have asked him myself but by the time it became clear to me that he needed to be asked, I was told not to.) Why he cares about such mundane matters is beyond me in the first place.
Remember the bully I've mentioned in the past? I frequently check my work email from home for various reasons. I have to do one extra click to see the folder into which I have his mail directed so I practically never click that because I know whatever he writes is bound to upset me. Stupid me. This morning I clicked the folder. I read the email. Delete! I'll not respond to such snottiness. He will never get it, in gazillion years, that there are ways to make the same point, in a way that's 10 times nicer and actually gets better results. He's a pig.
I have to go make some art now and cleanse my mind of bullshit.
TGIF, baby!
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Life's too short. This day job is killing me. I spent way too much time this week trying to find a different spot for an employee to sit, to give her more room and the ability to turn on a space heater without blowing a circuit breaker. You would not believe the hoops I had to jump through. I found two solutions, both of which were ultimately shot down. During one conversation with a non-decision-maker I wanted to say, "There's no logic in your statements. Do you honestly, in your heart, believe what you're saying or are you saying it because you think you're supposed to? Are you playing devil's advocate, perhaps?"It boiled down to the fact that the CEO has final say and no one was willing to ask him. (Yes, I absolutely would have asked him myself but by the time it became clear to me that he needed to be asked, I was told not to.) Why he cares about such mundane matters is beyond me in the first place.
Remember the bully I've mentioned in the past? I frequently check my work email from home for various reasons. I have to do one extra click to see the folder into which I have his mail directed so I practically never click that because I know whatever he writes is bound to upset me. Stupid me. This morning I clicked the folder. I read the email. Delete! I'll not respond to such snottiness. He will never get it, in gazillion years, that there are ways to make the same point, in a way that's 10 times nicer and actually gets better results. He's a pig.
I have to go make some art now and cleanse my mind of bullshit.
TGIF, baby!
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Labels: Life Update, What I'm Working On
posted by Stefani at 5:55 AM
1 Comments:
I have one client at work that affects me that way with the tone of her emails--commanding in an imperious tone, as if I'm her servant, just sitting there twiddling my thumbs until she gives me something to do.
I tried explaining to her last week what she was doing, and how it was affecting me (and other people) -- how it just makes us angry and LESS likely to want to do her work -- but it just fell on deaf ears.
I tried telling her it's not the *content* of the emails so much as it's the *tone* in which she says it, but she just doesn't get it, or just doesn't care.
It's not worth our time to try to fix them. Let's just do our best to ignore them. :)
TGIF indeed!
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