Mar 05 2008
An exercise in futility
What a week this has been so far. Something about everyday has really sucked. Monday I was almost falling asleep, Tuesday everyone says I was grumpy, and today was worse than the other two days combined. I really hope this trend does not continue.
As you can see I used the squirrel picture I was talking about yesterday on today’s post. If you go to flickr and look at a larger version you will be able to see what I was talking about.
I don’t guess this post really has a point other than I needed to vent and the neighborers are really getting sick and tired of me going outside and screaming my lungs out.
Some of you might find this entertaining. The boss snapped at me about something today and I snapped back a bit. He said something that I knew was not the way it was and told him as much. He said I was wrong. I went back to my desk and looked up the code that showed me right. Told him about it. I still ended up doing it the way he wanted, but that was not the point. He was a butt to me for no reason and I proved that I was right. I spent the whole afternoon pissed off. It was not even about who was right or wrong it was just the way he acted. I really just don’t even want to go to work tomorrow. I just want to say screw it, but for whatever reason I can’t do that.
I lack the ability to just say screw it to things. Some people that is all they do. Not sure which way would make life easier. Oh well back to my exercise.
I think your boss needs some DDI training. lol
http://www.ddiworld.com/
In which he needs to understand if he is a D, I, S or C, then what behavioral style you are, and how your two styles should interact effectively.
http://www.discprofiles.com/downloads/Classic2Plus/Classic2PlusAllSupplements.pdf
Last month I went thru a similar class in which I found out I was a high S and C small d, which is the Investigator pattern. Knowing your behavior helps you understand how to interact with other behavioral types.
That pdf is pretty good, it has all the info other than the actual evaluation test, which I have if you wanted to take it to determine your type. It may seriously help prevent these types of bad days.
I would not mind taking it worth a shot.
I took that a long time ago, but don’t remember what personality it said I was. I think that kind of stuff is a load of crap, though. Situations like these are easily resolved with a swift punch in the mouth.
It’s similar to the Myers Briggs test we took at Tech, but it’s more specifically oriented to your behavior in the work place.
Mouth punch is one option, it’s in the same strain as cage match. lol
Our teacher looked at me funny when we were talking about conflict resolution and I said a form of resolution was, “Cage match, two people enter, only one person leaves”.