Warning: Excessive ranting ahead.
It doesn’t take a lot to piss me off. I have my own pet peeves like men who don’t understand the word no, people who touch my laptop, people who don’t know how to take care of the items I let them borrow, and people who are insensitive to the tension building around them.
Another pet peeve is arrogance, especially from jackals posing as men who think they’re god’s gift to the world.
Now why am I acting like a rabid dog, with saliva foaming on it’s mouth? Because, surprise, surprise, an office mate managed to piss me off.
I have a pretty much indifferent outlook to the people I work with at the office. As long as they don’t tread on my toes then I’m fine (read: encroach on my personal life). If they diss me off because of my performance I’ll take that as it is. If I screwed up then I screwed up, end of story. I’m not going to go around blaming somebody.
But earlier today 2 guys I don’t really know managed to fulfill three of my pet peeves. A team meeting is a team meeting. If you have complaints, think about it first, once, twice and thrice on how you phrase it. This is not you having a cozy chit chat with friends where you can diss, rant, and brag all you want.
You have to respect your supervisor or whoever called for the meeting. They get to call the meeting because, newsflash: they’re on a higher rung on the ladder than the rest of us. I’d understand the scorn if they were yanking the chain without a good enough reason. But they do yank your chain for a reason so might as well be a big boy, take the lumps and deal with it like a man.
It almost looked as if they didn’t care that the sup. wasn’t pleased with their outburst and monkey acts. This guy even had the gall to start spouting off on why he wouldn’t want to be moved to the hosting team, arrogantly pointing at the metrics that we have.
Oh yeah? I have no problem with the metrics. I’ve never minded it because, to tell you the truth, looking at numbers and excel sheets make me dizzy. What’s so wrong with the metrics anyway? It looks pretty much the same to me no matter what department you belong to.
After that dig at our metrics he went on and on about the recent volume of calls being routed to them, alluding to himself as “aliping sagigilid”. Alipin? Slave? Bullshit. I reminded him he was being paid a hefty sum to do his job, that doesn’t look like slavery to me.
He had no answer to that and steered the conversation back to the number of calls they’re getting instead. They were complaining bitterly that the newbies are just laughing around, doing nothing. They shouldn’t be doing nothing, the newbies are supposed to brush up on client specs. So I told them to call the newbies out on what they’re doing, remind them they should be reading max.
He responded with a sarcastic, yeah right. As if they’d listen to me.
Ha! A pig with a defeatist attitude. He haven’t tried and yet here he was, telling me it wouldn’t work. I don’t like people like him. They tend to undermine the authority of whoever is in charge and can drag a team down with their defeatist attitude. I’m so glad I don’t have to deal with him all the time.
I’ve handled a team before, during my stint in the school paper and though my team was far from perfect I never had to deal with somebody with this big of an attitude. And to think we weren’t being paid a single centavo for our jobs.
Tsk. Tsk. Okay, I’m done ranting. Back to regular programming folks.
