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?"
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I find the best way to deal with difficult people is simply to push them out of a tall building.
Todorojo, the fact that nobody else subscribes to your hostile tactics only partially explains why you are still alive. ;)
Careful there DW. Someone might think you're trying to be difficult. You wouldn't want to find yourself falling from any tall buildings soon now would you?
I'd just like to point out that I've never felt tempted to push Adam out of a tall building. Not once.
Either you are implying that you do not find Todorojo to be difficult, or we have only reestablished that Cindy is kind, benevolent, patient, AND/OR does not subscribe to Todorojo's violent methods. They are competing hypotheses which are equally plausible with no way of proving one or the other given only the evidence available to us in this thread of comments.
I do like the second hypothesis, but in the interest of science, I should probably mention that it's a good thing there aren't any cliffs in Maryland or I might have ended up pushing a guy off of one.
Miguel from Maryland. For years my roommates could get me mad just by bringing him up. In fact, I was thinking about this the other day, and I decided that I had finally gotten over that phase because I didn't automatically get mad when I started thinking about him. So I looked in my journal to see why he made me so mad back then and, sure enough, I started getting mad all over again.
As someone once described in regards to the types of people we work with “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”…THIS IS EXACTLY WHO I WORK WITH! At least I know they are ready to fit into the world they will soon be entering.
Laughed out loud at the post and Hokie's comment. How true!
So I can pretty much repost this on my blog! I was blogging the other night and said many of the same things and when I was done quickly erased it! It was a fine work of art and now wish I wouldn't have deleted it!
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