Unbelievable... How can some people be so obliviously drifting in cloud Cuckoo Land all the time? I have had my share of working with some pretty difficult characters but some people really do get some sadistic pleasure in making others lives more challenging. Now, I cherish the people I work with dearly (well most of them), but sometimes I would love nothing more than to really go for it in a super style hit and run screaming rage just to say my piece – minus the inhibitions, minus any senior people within earshot and with immunity from being expelled! Instead I desperately try to contain myself and for my efforts wind up with a fat ‘Jamie Oliver’ style tongue, due to the biting it gets - AAAHHHH!!
How can you honestly look around you and visibly see people struggle and stress with a massive mountain of ‘stuff’ and sit there staring blankly into space with no cares in the world? I find myself in absolute hysterics for most of the day in the belief that as long as I keep laughing I can avoid crumbling in the corner like a nervous wreck! I am so thankful I have a great team to keep me going, but honestly I just find it absolutely hilarious how people really can’t (can’t / won’t – controversial) see beyond a foot in front of them. I hate to draw such generalisations when in the midst of all that there are some really wonderful peeps, but come on, WHAT IS WRONG WITH ALL YOU PEOPLE?
When you walk down the street and someone collapses right in front of you, would you calmly step right over them thinking how inconsiderate that you now have to lift your legs higher? No. Would you assist a little screaming kid that had fallen over because his legs couldn’t move as fast as he thought they could in his head? Of course you would. So why the hell can’t you naturally offer to help in exchange for some precious minutes of your ‘contemplation’ time?!!!! Mental!
I tell you what though, if there is one major lesson I've learnt it is how to rapidly expand my vocabulary to a hundred different ways to say no! I'm keeping these for the future!
