Have you ever had one individual in your life who is just so incredibly unpleasant to deal with that it makes you almost physically ill? One with whom you have no choice but to work from time to time?<\/p>\n
I do. And I have to say that it makes the prospect of going to work on a daily basis nearly unbearable recently, since I’ve been having to deal with this person for the past few weeks.<\/p>\n
Today, things came to a head. I came in this morning to a nasty, ugly email from this person. Someone had very obviously gotten off to a rocky start today because the person has been insulting, rude and downright belligerent all day. I have had problems with this person off and on for years, but today was a day unlike any other. I was actually flabbergasted by their lack of professionality. I don’t know about you, but that makes the workplace a hostile environment for me.<\/p>\n
I cannot, for the life of me, seem to convince this person that the portion of a specific process that is currently broken is actually their problem. I have proven that the process works in any number of different examples and environments and I am unable to fix the problem myself as the answer lies with a server over which I have no control. However, it seems to be impossible to convince this person to stop attacking my code and to start looking in their own backyard for the solution. I had a friendlier party in on the discussion last night, one who was willing to take my suggestions to heart as to how to fix the problem, but that person was stonewalled today by the Belligerent One.<\/p>\n
For the love of pumpkins, people, STOP YELLING AT ME! Especially don’t decide to ride me and get ugly about everything else that you can find that might possibly be my problem because you are angry that this one isn’t fixed. The problem isn’t mine, it’s yours. I have done everything that I can to lead you in the right direction to find the solution, but I can only lead the horse to water; I cannot make it drink. And if you won’t drink, at least put your head in the water, take three deep breaths and have someone tell me when it’s over.<\/p>\n
Sorry, that was mean. But it really is taking every ounce of my self-restraint not to tell this person to take a flying leap. People need to learn how to relax a little bit. Including myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Have you ever had one individual in your life who is just so incredibly unpleasant to deal with that it makes you almost physically ill? One with whom you have no choice but to work from time to time? I … Continue reading