After a nice 3-day weekend, one would think that the first day back in the office would be somewhat civilized. Oh no. Never. And it is for that exact reason that I will spend the majority of this post ranting about some of the many nonsense-like occurrences of my day.
First and foremost...it has become quite discouraging to sit back and watch people in positions of authority in my business simply apply zero effort to their every day activity. I mean people who work in marketing not really caring what their marketing materials look like? Are you kidding me? I felt like reaching through the phone today on several occasions. Now I know that I can be the naive optimist some of the time. Okay...all of the time...but that doesn't mean that I'm wrong here. Of course it's rare in this day and age to love your job. Hell...I would say the majority of people nowadays would love to get a new job but the economy has just gone to shit or they don't know what they want to do or they realized recently that they want to do nothing but that doesn't pay well.
However, why wouldn't you want to do your job well ANYWAY?!?! I mean even if it's 'just because.' I don't get it. I had someone ask me today how much progress I had made on something while she was out of the office? I said, "Excuse me? Was I supposed to do your job while you were away?" Yeah I don't think so. Needless to say I tried to keep that conversation short. I would go into more detail here but I probably shouldn't. I'd rather move on.
Right after having the above conversation, I get an interesting email in my Gmail account saying that someone has sent me a message on Facebook. I know the name but I also know that we are not friends on Facebook and I can pretty much tell where that comment is going. After opening and reading the very short, to-the-point message my only reaction was that I will not have a response. My mother always said, "If you don't have anything nice to say...don't say anything at all." But again I leave myself wondering...how do people have it in them to say hurtful, rude, out of context, discouraging comments to people who are genuinely happy, nice people? I will never understand this.
While there are several other items I could dive into here, I will refrain as I never know who is reading this and I never intend to hurt anyone's feelings. On the contrary, I would hope that whatever I write is looked at as constructive criticism which I welcome on a daily/hourly basis. How else can we all get better at what we do and in turn, become better people in the long run?
It's not as hard as it seems. Just lighten up...and work harder for crying out loud. Any thoughts, comments or concerns? Please share. Have a good one.
Erin
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My response to this post is twofold - With respect to the first item and having to do a co-worker's work, they should have asked in advance. The proper response was, did you ask me to take care of something while you were gone, because I don't recall that. As for the second part of the post, I will follow my own advice and not comment at all EXCEPT to say that if a person is an adult, any other adult family member/acquaintance should mind their own business 95% of the time. I, of course, do not follow the 95% rule, but that's just me. I do however butt in when I see huge mistakes about to be made. That's it.
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