Several days a week I go into an office to work. Like most offices it is compiled of people that would never have voluntarily chosen to spend 8 hours a day together. I find that surviving in an office is a lot like driving on a New Jersey Highway. You just need to take a deep breath and don't let the other drivers get to you.
Just like the highway, there are people who insist on "teaching" you how to drive, they believe themselves to be excellent drivers and therefore make every effort to teach you by example... right down to making sure you can't pass them so you will be able to "learn" longer. (In the office this is similar to the person that feels they must walk you through your job, even though you have been doing it for years, they still feel the need to tell you what screens to go to in the software and what codes to use to access the information.)
Just like the highway, there are people driving slow in the fast lane... they seem placed there specifically to slow you down. (This is the person that reviews your urgent proposal for 4 days and then takes another 3 days to toggle between two different closings... Very truly yours, or Sincerely)
And Just like the highway, there are those people sitting in bumper to bumper traffic, that insist on beeping their horn, as if the 4 mile backup is due to someone "not going". (In the office this translates to the person that always complains and mostly about things that they have absolutely no control over)
This is the person I want to speak to today.
Stop it!
You complain after you return from a client site about; how far you had to drive, how dumb the client is, how cheap the client is, how difficult the project is... If you can't complain about the client, then you complain about; your girlfriend, your health, your parents dog! PLEASE.
You are like a great big bummer cloud, sucking the pleasure out of the air and raining down discontent.
I'm sure you don't believe this... but if you changed your negative ways, you would be much happier too.
If you have the urge to complain, stop.
If you must speak, make a positive comment about something good that happened today.
Go ahead try it
I'm waiting.
Hmmmmm not so easy right.
Is it because you think no one will care about... the great tune you heard on the radio this morning, or the fantastic sleep you had last night?
Is that is?
Honestly, if no one cares about the good stuff.... what makes you think we care about all of the things you are constantly complaining about?
PLEASE try.
Please try to be the person that comes in like the golden rays of the sun warming everyone with their positive glow and humor.... instead of the big bummer cloud!
I beg of you, on behalf of your co-workers....
If you have to talk...
and we have to listen -- We would prefer to hear about the cute thing that the little chipmunk did on your deck to taunt your dog this morning .... rather than... the lady at the Dunkin Donuts who apparently dedicated her morning to making yours more difficult, by not understanding your order the first time you interrupted your blackberry text-fest to give it to her.
In closing, you bring us down. And although secretly I'm hoping your don't read this post, because I have won the last 4 out of 5 "What-will-he-come-in-complaining-about-today" pools. I still have to think that although I won't be richer, I will be a little happier.
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