Your Morning Smile

[talktooloose]

I am filled with a rage so black that were it to be unleased, the whole building would be engulfed. It would twist and melt in the flames of my anger and pour down the storm grates like acid molasses, finishing off the fish who are already struggling with the run-off of our mad, insatiable civilization.

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[quirkstreet.livejournal.com]

I gotta tell you, performance reviews trigger the holy fuck out of me, too. I so completely hear you.

Let me tell you something. When I was in the US Air Force in the mid 1980s (read: a less "enlightened" era, and a context most people would not immediately assume was "touchy feely"), the management courses they made me take talked about how you really need to give people a good 5-10 instances of praise for any 1 or 2 "this needs work" statements you're going to give them.

What's more ... most of the military officers I worked for? Really practiced that.

Whereas out in the "real world"? It's VERY rare to get *1* "attaboy" for every "please do better."

I'm over-sensitive to it, too. I'm a petite flower about this stuff. But you know what? Most "management" types don't have the personnel sensitivity of an average brick falling from a great height. So I'm over-sensitive to stuff that other people should *also* be pissed about. ;-)

You are sane.