I got very upset at work today. I think I usually do a pretty good job of keeping my cool and having patience. But today I lost it. I just had taken my fill of silly gibberish being spouted in my face and cracked. The funny thing is, usually after I get upset at work I feel slightly embarrassed or bad about it. I always think that as a manager I should be in absolute control of my emotions even in the face of craziness (perhaps especially in the face of craziness).
But this time actually it didn’t really bother me. The person I was yelling at was just being plain stupid. In order to get my point across I think the only thing I could do was rave like a lunatic because the other person was also acting like a lunatic. (Naturally I realize getting angry at someone who is a lunatic is probably a waste of time and effort, but still…)
Of course bad behavior is bad behavior. (I guess I do actually regret my words a little -or more accurately I regret how I said them, not what I actually said.) Certainly it was not a positive experience for the innocent bystanders.
Still, some people just don’t have a clue.