My biggest challenge at work

It's not the probationers.  I have learned to set my expectations at an appropriate level.  I know that they are not on probation for good conduct.  I know that I'm going to be lied to.  It's just what I see as reality.  I'm not saying that I don't expect good conduct, because that's exactly what I expect.  I'm just not that affected when I don't get that level of behavior.  I am more affected when I do get good behavior that show a real desire to change and become a productive part of society.  I suppose it's that adjusted levels of success concept that I have applied.

Where I do get frustrated the most is dealing with coworkers.  I expect more from people employed in an occupation that normally requires a college degree.  Even if I have learned that pretty much anyone can get a degree...  My nephew's wife is a shining example of that.  Squeaked by with a D+ GPA and now spends her time being a religious zealot.  I digress.  What makes it so hard for people to talk right to one another?  Talking to a coworker in a condescending tone is unprofessional and not appropriate.  And I don't believe for a minute that you don't know you are doing it.  You just feel superior and don't have respect for that person.  In this case me.  And I have to really work at behaving myself at those points.  I know that we live in a ridiculously politically correct world that frowns on picking coworkers up by their tighty whiteys until their attention is sufficiently focused on their poor behavior. 

Instead, dealing with the behavior in a non-confrontational way by utilizing the supervisor as a mediator is appropriate.  I just don't have faith in the behavior of two-faced people.  When they are called on their behavior and they deny that they did it, there is a problem.  And when they get to a point where they childishly proclaim that they just won't deal with or help you any more, well that just does seem to prove my point doesn't it? 

I know that I continually do this in each of the work environments that I've had.  Perhaps it is due to previous structured employment that weeds out and smashes similar behavior.  I guess I expect more from the people that I work with.  Apparently that is not healthy for me to do.

I need to embrace the fact that rectal cranial inversion disorder is fairly common across all segments of the population...


P. O. Doe

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