Working with People

In order to get along in this world one needs to know how to work with different types of people. Needless to say, some people are harder to work with than others. I readily admit that many would say (and probably rightly so) as much about me, but this is my blog and my time to vent.

For example: there are whiners, complainers, needy individuals, those that want YOU to do THEIR work, masters of melodrama, those that want to be and to be treated as though they were leaders even though they are not supposed to be and are thereby being counterproductive, people that have no respect for other people's time, ones that do not listen, those that insist that you hang on every word they say and respond appropriately while simultaneously refusing on all grounds to afford you even a modicum of the same courtesy, those that dress and act unprofessionally, and .... Anyway, there are people that exhibit some of these traits, and then there are those that are unfortunate enough to exhibit all of them. I was once asked the following question by one such individual. What then follows is the response I wanted, but could not bring myself to speak.

"Why do you want me to use YOUR work so much?"

"It isn't that at all. I don't have a preference whose work you use. I only care that the results do what they are supposed to do. My stuff does what is required, works now, and has for over a month (as we have already discussed several times). Your stuff didn't work then and still doesn't. Even if it successfully did what YOU want it to, it still would not be doing what is required. Add the fact that you keep pulling me away from my assigned work to help you resolve and debug your stuff (that doesn't do as much as mine does, AND doesn't work), and you start to see why I keep telling you to just use my work. So, I guess the real question is why are YOU so attached to YOUR work?"