Deep breaths

General January 26th, 2005

The day I’m having a bad morning at work, I rip off the page-a-day calendar and it reads:

Look at the weaknesses of others with compassion, not accusation. It’s not what they’re doing or should be doing that’s the issue. The issue is your own chosen response to the situation and what you should be doing. If you start to think the problem is “out there,” stop yourself. That thought is the problem.

It reminds me of my customer service training, and the fact you have to give permission to people to make you upset. The trick to keeping a cool head is never to permit someone to make you angry.

Or something. The wireless works. Honest. It might not work for you, but it works for the hundreds of other people who are in the building everyday. Your crappy card or tablet has a poor wireless implementation, either in hardware or drivers. I didn’t make your hardware or write your drivers. It’s not my fault. Buy better equipment. If your jalopy breaks down, do you blame the city that paved the road? [/end rant]



6 Comments to “Deep breaths”

  1. Dave | January 26th, 2005 at 1:03 pm

    There’s a quiet, peaceful serenity around the office over lunch time. I dig that. It’s made even better by cold Kung Pow chicken and white chocolate coated oreos.

  2. Josh | January 26th, 2005 at 2:57 pm

    Linkage:
    Fatal error: Call to undefined function: curl_init() in /usr/dcs/www/www-root-dave/wordpress/wp-content/plugins/delicious.php on line 34

  3. Dave | January 26th, 2005 at 3:05 pm

    bah. So much for me being del.icio.us

  4. Tony | January 26th, 2005 at 4:13 pm

    Ummmm…. sorry you’re having a bad day? I can relate? “It’s not my fault you didn’t remember to do your homework, so please be mad at yourself, child, not me.”

  5. EJ | January 26th, 2005 at 4:55 pm

    Not to nit-pick, but you never opened your rant tag….

  6. Waj | February 3rd, 2005 at 10:13 pm

    yeah no wonder Tony’s blog gets errors with Dave’s code.