I ask anyone who reads this to say a little prayer for me today. There are two girls at work who have been sitting talking the last few months and doing very little as myself and a very hard working Polish girl did most of the work in the office. I asked and asked them lightly and jokingly to please do something, but last afternoon I am afraid my Irish temper snapped and I issued them an untimatum that if they didn't do some work I am going upstaris to report them. I can't honestly say I am sorry about this, but there will be a very,very bad atmosphere today at work and I don't know what will happen. The Polish girl was delighted , as I think were other workers, but I hardly slept last night turning all this over. I am silly letting it cause me to loose sleep, but I suppose it has been building up for some time. I should have nipped this in the bud earlier, but I am not their supervisor. The supervisor is a lovely woman but she doesn't care who does the work , so long as it gets done...I am rambling, sorry.................... :roll:
Better late than never. Padraig, I'm sorry, but this post slipped through my fingers; I failed to notice it until now. Hopefully, you are in lah-lah land (and sleeping deeply). I will pray that a sense of personal responsibility will penetrate the hearts of the two thorns in your flesh! Good night. Sleep tight! Don't let the bedbugs bite!
Hi Padraig: I'm praying that you'll do the right thing. Some bosses might take your reporting these girls' slack attitudes as an attack on his/her own supervision skills. Tread carefully.
Well as it turned out I apologised for what I said and things are fine. The Polish girl said I had a habit of 'Making a drama out of things' and I think maybe she's right. Thankfully as Deanna said I did not report them as this would have made a bad situation much worse in everyway. Working in close quarter with people in an office situation is a funny thing, it reminds me of being in the monastery, were you are on top of each other all the time, also it has a fixed hierarchy too. I see I have a lot to learn. Two things I have learned, as Saint James seys, 'The justice of God is not served b the wrath of man'. I will have to watch my mouth. Also , I think its useless to always expect people to be just, I shall be more tolerant and not to be a drama Queen. It also reminds me of what Saint Tereasa of Avila says about the nature of peace. She says it can be like an ocean, on the surface a great storm can blow but at the bottom, were we pray we can be still and calm. Its funny how little things and really sometimes they are very little with me can make the seas boil over. I think this is because I am single and live a very solitary life, so I am not like someone who is say married with a family and more used to the squalls of life and able, through experience to treat them equably.. I will be more careful with my temper in future I think..and maybe learn a little office politics. :wink: :wink: I can change myself, but usually only through prayer, rather than impatience, can I usually change others.
