Use Your Inside Voice When you Speak to Me
March 20, 2009 No CommentsOffice politics, what would I do without you?
You make my heart beat quickly, cause my eyes to twitch furiously and encourage me to put my iPod on blast for a good part of the day.
Every office and/or work environment has politics. Whether you’re the big boss in your organization or the lowly peon, we all encounter conflicts, gossip, and the most annoying, POWER TRIPS.
Note: If you do not experience any of these things where you work, please e-mail me with a link to your firm’s website and I will forward my CV asap!
If you did not get a chance to check out my post, PSA: Don’t let this happen to you
, please check out the YouTube video I posted with it. This will warm you up for the theme of this post.
Throughout my experience in the world of work, the managers I respected most were able to converse with me on a normal level. Meaning that our conversation would not consist entirely of commands, and include the occasional “how are you?” with reciprocation. I have high regard for the manager who takes interest in learning about and working with my personality & work style. I also respect any manager who is able to motivate this lazy goddess, just because I get up at 5:30 in the morning does not make me a morning person.
I know it’s near impossible to come across the ideal manager. I have observed managers mistreating employees, going on extended power trips and employees taking it, I’m sure you have too.
Few things make me roll my eyes so far back into my head that they do a 360, but “little person with big attitude” are one of them. Its often “small men/women” who feel the need to exert their “authority” over others. By little I do not necessarily mean stature although in many cases it’s the truth. I really mean small as in character. The kind of man or woman who will talk down to, gossip about others, who walk around with a permanent pickle up the buttocks. Small men and women are often identifiable by their unnecessarily loud outside voices, lack of consideration for others, and the need to interrupt “peons” when they are in the middle of making a valid point. They feed off of other’s misery and enjoy making their “peons” work extra hard for limited pay or recognition, if the peon allows them to.
NO, this is NOT my personal experience, merely an observation. I am actually very fortunate to work with a great group of monkeys people in my department. As for the rest of the zoo office, I am not touching that one with a 10ft pole J
I once had my hand in managing a store, I was the assistant manager and a damn good one too. From a position of authority I did not feel the need to belittle anyone to get work done, so I cannot comprehend the “little person with big attitude” style of management. We can agree that often these “little people” have low self esteem or some other bullshit excuse, but this style of management carries over to the personal life. We regularly find little people with big attitudes in our personal relationships who like to belittle and control. Maybe its fear of losing control or being deceived and tricked that causes them to “bulk up” and exert their POWER.
I know it’s Friday, but anyone have “little person with big attitude” stories for me?
Did I miss any characteristics of a “little person”?
I only use my outside voice when I’m intoxicated,
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