Infuriating work situations

[Cheapjack]

Have you ever been in a position, where someone just above you, is reporting your ideas to a superior, keeping an eye on you, but making you out to be a jerk, really, and maybe keeping you as a photocopy clerk, when you could have your own office?

I feel I am in that position, a bit. I'm just hoping I get promoted soon. I feel a little Spock like, with one eyebrow raised, as to what people will do, and I am really hoping I don't have spend another ten years at the photocopy machine, if I get that.

With any luck, I'll have a new career soon.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

... or perhaps you are a delusional paranoid.

 

[Cheapjack]

I don't think so. It happens a lot at work, I hear.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

It's no good constantly thinking something may be so, you have to act. Otherwise, you start believing what you tell yourself is true.

 

[Cheapjack]

Thanks, Mambo.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

This book might help:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Crucial-Conversations-Tools-Talking-Stakes/dp/0071401946

 

[Cheapjack]

Thanks.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

This book might help:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Crucial-Conversations-Tools-Talking-Stakes/dp/0071401946

Hey, I had to read that book at my last job. We did the training sessions and everything.

It's only really any good in a professional environment where there is some level of respect for other people, though. In other words, probably not much use in Cheapjack-land, where chavs rule, people who read books are beaten, and intelligent couples are forcibly sterilized by their chav overlords.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Maybe so. Perhaps this would be a better choice:

Secret Habits of Successful Bastards: The Self-help Book for People Who Are Too Nice

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-Habi...=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1284735110&sr=8-1

 

[Cheapjack]

This book might help:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Crucial-Conversations-Tools-Talking-Stakes/dp/0071401946

Hey, I had to read that book at my last job. We did the training sessions and everything.

It's only really any good in a professional environment where there is some level of respect for other people, though. In other words, probably not much use in Cheapjack-land, where chavs rule, people who read books are beaten, and intelligent couples are forcibly sterilized by their chav overlords.

Hey, Robert,

There's still some places in Texas, you can't get out of, that are weirder than where I've been. The last episode of Dallas had bit where a wife shot her abusive husband and was looking at a life sentence.



And, mambo, thanks.

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'Not only can this man speak, he can THINK, he can REASON'...

'THAT, can reason?''

'The Planet of the Apes'.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

This book might help:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Crucial-Conversations-Tools-Talking-Stakes/dp/0071401946

Hey, I had to read that book at my last job. We did the training sessions and everything.

It's only really any good in a professional environment where there is some level of respect for other people, though. In other words, probably not much use in Cheapjack-land, where chavs rule, people who read books are beaten, and intelligent couples are forcibly sterilized by their chav overlords.

Hey, Robert,

There's still some places in Texas, you can't get out of, that are weirder than where I've been. The last episode of Dallas had bit where a wife shot her abusive husband and was looking at a life sentence.



And, mambo, thanks.

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'Not only can this man speak, he can THINK, he can REASON'...

'THAT, can reason?''

'The Planet of the Apes'.

You didn't just try to imply that your knowledge of Texas is based on a 1980's soap opera, did you?

 

[Cheapjack]

A lot more than that. It's rife in popular culture. My place won't be, when I've single-handedly tried to drag them up to the rest of the world's level, or left, and given them no-one so juicy to pick on.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

I... I don't even know what I just read.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

I sense someone is chanelling Major Barcalow.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

BRING BACK BAGGINS!

 

[Shatnertage]

To the extent that I understand what I've read above, I think someone might have anger management issues.

 

[Cheapjack]

OK,OK, I'll shut up about it. But it happened and there are places like that. It's just sometimes you get a whole load of regressive cultures in one place at the same time. I know it's difficult for some to understand, but there are similar places all over the world, run-down, with high unemployment, underacheivement that is cultural, institutionalised slightly, and all that can spiral off from that. It's just very concentrated in some. And, it could spread. And there are lots of people in them, apart from myself, who are trying to improve the situation. And, I don't think I have anger management issues. As Mambo said, I need to get it out and show some aggression, or at least not pure nervousness, in the right way.

Mambo's link was useful.



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'They said Mozart was mad, they said Einstein was mad, they said Louey was mad!!'

'Who's Louey??'

'My uncle. He WAS mad!'

Jimmy Durante.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

CJ, do you mind telling us roughly whereabouts you live in the UK? Mainly so that I can avoid ever going there? The way you describe it, it sounds dreadful, and if I were you, I would have attempted to get out as soon as I could.

You don't appear to have anger management issues as far as I can tell, but you do appear to need advice on how to deal with other people.

 

[Cheapjack]

Well, there is 'The Bronx', in the US. Or, there was. That got cleaned up and I'd go there. That was an intensified few miles. Actually, a good influx of positive types would do the area good, as there's countryside a few miles away, which there isn't in New York. There was an American in a bar with me yesterday, and they wouldn't pick on a guest, just the few village idiot types, who have sometimes have good ideas, that live there. And, like the small minority of abusers in this world, some of them don't want people to know what sort of a shiner they have given you, but you have to tell someone. Some of those in the institutions are scared of losing their culture, but it offers a lower standard of living and is reliant on people outside, for support, who don't share their beliefs, which are similar to mine. It could be improved, without revolution,though there will always be certain character to it, always.

You're book recommendation was good.

 

[Asbo Zaprudder]

Well, there is 'The Bronx', in the US. Or, there was. That got cleaned up and I'd go there. That was an intensified few miles. Actually, a good influx of positive types would do the area good, as there's countryside a few miles away, which there isn't in New York. There was an American in a bar with me yesterday, and they wouldn't pick on a guest, just the few village idiot types, who have sometimes have good ideas, that live there. And, like the small minority of abusers in this world, some of them don't want people to know what sort of a shiner they have given you, but you have to tell someone. Some of those in the institutions are scared of losing their culture, but it offers a lower standard of living and is reliant on people outside, for support, who don't share their beliefs, which are similar to mine. It could be improved, without revolution,though there will always be certain character to it, always.

I'll take that as a "no" -- fair enough.