before i start, an interesting article:
http://thecouchmanager.com/2011/01/16/8-interpretations-of-silence-when-using-instant-messaging/
so. what really sets me off about work is not the annoying colleague, the deadly silence in the office, the micromanagers or the One who sees it as his God-given duty to tell you that he has forecasted the future, and that you will fail without even trying.
it is that i let all these little, stupid things bother me and my outlook on life. it is that because everybody else is like this it seems too odd if you really can’t give two cents, or even if you just have better things to think about everybody starts to hog their rice bowls, wondering why you are not as petty and silly as everyone else, so you must be a power hungry bitch with something up your sleeve.
and rumour has it that the cool, calm and collected folks are the ones who are snakey sneaky and chummy with the bosses. which is true – that’s why you, the rumourmonger, are still stuck at the bottom of the food chain as an insecure little whiner.
what really, does work suck out of us? dignity, pride, morals? when did we become so concerned with who-and-whos whom we never knew before we signed the employment contract? why do we pretend that we are as insecure as they are? let them be afraid if they wish.
and frankly speaking, it’ll be really sad to waste my youth on worrying and speculating about other people’s rice bowls.
i wonder what the problem really is – that we have bosses who don’t want to hear about our ideals and good deeds, or if we are too busy trying to show them that we matter, so we end up ignoring the things that do.
i hate to admit it sometimes but carl is always right about these things. these small things and people are hardly worth fussing over, my office is not worse than your office. it’s just life.
