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Act fast! I’m about to lose my mind and need to take action before the insanity becomes full blown!
Dear Blog Reader,
I remember when I was content at work; when I was happy and fulfilled and felt love for others. Those days feel like they belong to the ghost of a person I am no longer.
My personal friends still kick ass. At work, there are just asses. Although I work with two or three outstanding people, many of those with whom I most interact are less than wonderful, to put it kindly. I am having a hard time dealing with attitudes that stem from imaginary emotions and judgements for acts that weren’t committed. I can’t understand behavior at these levels and I don’t know how to connect personal dislike to business.
I know where I have failed. If you’re unappealing to me, I push you out of my personal network. I, however, try to be pleasant when we have to interact and I also try to focus on the task, not you as an ass. I think most people can’t do this and are unable to comprehend that it can be done. I think most people think that if I don’t care for them personally, they are under no obligation to do their job if I’m the one making the request. That seems idiotic to me. It’s not like I go out of my way to be rude to those I don’t care for. Actually, it’s a passive opposite. I usually don’t bother you in any way- even with ‘hellos’. No need to interact until we have to, right?
I want to give you background on what I mean by unappealing so you don’t think I’m some cold, judgemental jerk. If you are so riddled with personal problems that you want to spend all of your work day discussing those problems, that is unappealing to me. If you constantly want to complain about your job, instead of just doing your job, that is unappealing to me. If you are moving on a destructive path and refuse to take action to change directions, that is unappealing. If you seek to make others look bad because you cannot perform at the same high level that they do, that is unappealing! I was once accused of treating our office’s AA like a secretary.... can you explain that to me, please? And what the fuck is wrong with being a secretary? How is that a ‘bad’ thing? I didn’t make it bad. It doesn’t seem bad to me. I. DO. NOT. UNDERSTAND.
I’ve also run into those who harbor some sort of grudge because they have had to help with a project that I was leading and their schedules did not accommodate this project. Not my problem, my fault, or my call, but I’m still the bitch in the story, somehow. I’ve sent very nice thank you emails, I’ve been very nice on the phone, and I’ve praised the job they did. All of this has been met with coldness and even a phone being slammed down on me.
Can anyone help me understand what the hell is going on? Seriously? WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON?
It’s enough to make me lose my love for fellow man. No wonder anteaters hate us.
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Posted by liz on 05/31 at 03:56 PM-
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I used to hear a lot of this stuff in school, both when I was a student and when I worked at a school. People sign up for college classes or other career training stuff, and then they get mad because the teacher assigned homework or something. I certainly understand getting upset at a teacher who assigns more than the expected six hours a week of homework, or the teacher who thinks that her class is the only one that’s important and that the students shouldn’t also have time to go to the other four classes they have to take, or the teacher who waits til the last minute to tell people about assignments. No, these people were just making the unbelievable argument that they shouldn’t have out of class work because they just didn’t have time to do it. They have to take care of their children or go to their jobs or something. They apparently had not scheduled any time for school other than the actual class time. So somehow it is the teacher’s fault that they decided to go to school full-time and have a full-time job at the same time? Or it was somehow the school’s fault that they either decided to have babies when they were too young or they decided to wait later in life to go to school?
I personally would have been embarrassed at my poor planning. I can’t imagine saying out loud that I should be excused from doing my school work because I had the stupid idea of getting a job that required me to go directly from school to work and then left no time after work for reading and such that one obviously has to do when one is going to school. So it was really puzzling to hear these “adults” bitching about how mean and unfair a teacher was for expecting assignments to be turned in on time.
I’ve gotten used to people who complain about their jobs all of the time. That just seems to be the American way or something. I was shocked the first time that I heard that sort of thing when I was a teenager, but you know for the most part I was hearing it from other teenagers. So I thought maybe it was just a stage that everyone went through, but twenty years later it’s pretty much the same.
By laughingattheslut on 2008 06 01
We have a lot in common in this arena and this post really touched a nerve in me. I take pride and satisfaction in doing a good job and if I’m going to complain about my job I try to make sure to do the complaining to the right people - like the ones who can actually do something to improve the situation and if those people don’t exist or are unable to hear me then I move along and find another opportunity.
Every day I am forced to work with people who are unable and/or unwilling to do their own jobs and every day I do the unpopular thing and am honest about the fact that I am unhappy with their work and also tend to copy everyone’s supervisor on all email exhanges. If the supervisor of the lazy, unmotovated person I’m trying to squeeze a little work out of is also lazy and unmotovated then I also copy my own supervisor on the email exchanges so that someobody out there knows that at least I am trying to get this crap taken care of.
I don’t care if people at my job like me. It’s nice if when they do, but I really only care about getting my own crap done and performing to the best of my abilities the service they have hired me to perform. I can’t get all wrapped up in dramas at work or other people’s personal dramas at work - I’m just trying to earn a living and be home as often as possible.
By abroad on 2008 06 01
Administrative assistants ARE secretaries. WTF?
I was an AA for YEARS.
AA is just a more politically correct(and gender neutral) term for secretary.
I’m with you on the other points. Do your job. Stop whining. And don’t dump your work on me. Then we’ll get along just fine.
By Roadchick on 2008 06 01
Are you talking about the corporate offices at Killer Rants? I told you I only slammed the phone down, because there was a bee in my office, a REALLY BIG Bee!
If you are unhappy here, then I promise I will limit my poop taking, in your office/co-ed bathroom to once daily...unless nature demands more.
By killer on 2008 06 01
So many share the misery. United we stand… knee deep in the shit pit.
Killer, I’m glad you are taking the hint. Have you noticed how much work I’VE been doing on the blog lately? What are YOU doing? Sitting around, eating ice cream or something? Making your own honey with those bees you keep in your office? But tomorrow is a new day, so maybe things will improve...?
By liz on 2008 06 01
Bitter? Party of one? Your table is ready.
By othurme on 2008 06 01
no matter where you work you will encounter fuckers who don’t do their jobs, don’t like being asked to work, blah, blah, blah. universal shit. pisses me off, but it really happens everywhere.
intelligent and hardworking people simply find a way to deal with it. usually it involves happy hour.
By hello haha narf on 2008 06 02
well, i need a job. you want one with people you don’t want to strangle.
i miss smoking and we both like drinking and candles.
anyone know how we can get paid to drink and buy candles?
By heather on 2008 06 02