Oct 17 2008
The War in our Heads
I was told once that the hardest battles we fight in life are the ones within our own conscience. This said, we may not find the skills to fight those battles. There are little tricks here and there to help make that battle less brutal. We try to cope with the pressures in life that happen to us. Some people resort to methods that later lead them into even worse problems in life this not solving or helping any of the initial problems but just adding more weight to it / them.
Just to ad an example of what I went through at a job. I keep blaming myself for not handling the pressure better. I worked at a company where I truly put my soul into it. Mind, heart, and everything I could. After a couple of weeks new into this job my boss started to get nasty in his behavior towards me. He asked me suddenly to become a mind reader of how to make the company run without proper training. The last Friday I got into work at 4:30 AM and by the time it was 5:30 my boss was screaming at me telling me that I was going to be there until 10:00 PM until the work got done or until I figured out a way to make the project work.
I keep trying to figure out how I could handle better working with people with almost impossible demands and with a slave-based attitude towards the workers. If you have any ideas of what a person is suppose to do under those circumstances, can you please send me some free advice? I would appreciate it.
Keep your head up. It’s just a job, and a boss who expects that much out of you without appreciating what you’re doing already isn’t going to be a boss for very long. Do your work at work, put on your best shit-eatin grin when you see your boss, and don’t worry about it from there.
My two cents, at least.
Your boss seems anti-intellectual. I say do what you think you should.
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It is very difficult to work with people who have such tight rope perceptions. One thing that can make you feel a little at ease is to be thankful that you are not narrow minded and that you have the will and reasoning not to become what you are against the most. They think they have power but if you DON’T ALLOW him to hurt you by ignoring his pettines and not making him so important is what will make you be the winner. In the mean time look for another job too while you are at it.