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Watching.
Laboring.
Waiting.
Working.
Deepening waves
leading to this:
Push.
Stretching.
Tearing.
Blood vessels
popping.
Prized insight:
The prize is in sight.
Still.
It’s messy.
Push.
Anticipating,
fearing
pain.
Squeezing through.
Knowing.
Wanting.
Feeling
it’s close to being over.
Push.
This cracks me up.
Of course, I couldn’t actually break out laughing too loudly as I read it on my computer at work…
I subscribe (and work hard to apply) to the parenting philosophy that good behavior should be rewarded and that bad behavior should be interpreted and redirected.
There MUST be a way for me to apply this to work relationships.
My best days at work are the ones where I pretty much keep to myself and get my work done and don’t try too hard to be funny or impress anyone.
The worst days are when the strong personalities around me inadvertently lurch at my emotional jugular and I spew the resulting ill will around, randomly “venting” to the folks I perceive as being on “my side.”
I know it’s a shitty way to deal with feeling mistreated and picked on, and I even recognize what I’m doing and despise myself as I’m doing it.
It just seems that turning the other cheek in effect gives the feedback that it’s OKAY TO STEP ON ME.
If I do the mature thing and smile and be nice, how will the perpetrators ever realize that their behavior is hurtful?
I guess maybe I’ve answered my own question, though. The solution is the interpretation and redirection piece of the puzzle. It means respectfully confronting and interpreting the bad behavior and communicating clearly that it is hurtful.
Geez, that sounds like WORK. I’d rather be at home breaking up the preschooler fights.
