Contrary to popular opinion and outside appearances, I've come to the opinion that I am in fact a tightly wound individual. I blame my mother, but that's to no purposeful end
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Maybe you should sit down with her to discuss setting priorities and deadlines on tasks. Then when she's like "OMG IS THIS DONE YET" you can say this is a low level priority that doesn't need to be finished until Friday so I'm working on this other thing so shut the hell up and go freak out on someone else because I'm trying to not die of a brain aneurism before I'm 40.
He just has this way of making you feel like whatever you've done right in the last four years means nothing against the fact that you're doing something "wrong" (in his opinion) right now.
But, I didn't mean exclusively at work, although re-reading it I can totally see how it looks like that. I think if I could reel it in over all then I'd just be better set to deflect people like him and situations that threaten my otherwise calm and bittyesque existence. Like when I get agitated behind the wheel of a car, there's no need for me to allow myself to start acting like I'm the best driver in the world and everybody else is just an accident waiting to happen.
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Maybe you should sit down with her to discuss setting priorities and deadlines on tasks. Then when she's like "OMG IS THIS DONE YET" you can say this is a low level priority that doesn't need to be finished until Friday so I'm working on this other thing so shut the hell up and go freak out on someone else because I'm trying to not die of a brain aneurism before I'm 40.
Or something like that.
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He just has this way of making you feel like whatever you've done right in the last four years means nothing against the fact that you're doing something "wrong" (in his opinion) right now.
But, I didn't mean exclusively at work, although re-reading it I can totally see how it looks like that. I think if I could reel it in over all then I'd just be better set to deflect people like him and situations that threaten my otherwise calm and bittyesque existence. Like when I get agitated behind the wheel of a car, there's no need for me to allow myself to start acting like I'm the best driver in the world and everybody else is just an accident waiting to happen.
I want to breathe easier.
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I'm confused... you mean I'm not the best driver in the world?
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