On selfish people, volume 2

15Sep06

I remember hearing someone say that “impatience is a virtue”. I don’t remember if they were joking or if they just didn’t recall the proverb correctly. But I know I’m not virtuous and I know I am very impatient. Maybe intolerant is another good word. Whatever word it is, I am just sick of trying to please people at work. I feel like so many people, maybe because they don’t know who I am, take things for granted and expect that if they ask for something, it’s the only thing I will spend all day doing because I don’t have anything else to do. Well they are wrong. I’m trying to accomplish a lot but every time I try to sit down to do something I get interrupted by someone thinking that their requirement is a lot more important than anyone elses’. When am I going to stop trying to help other people and help myself? It’s like when they tell you on the plane, you must put your oxygen mask on first before helping others. Apparently they don’t teach that to you in corporate drone school. It’s more like, “make sure everyone else caters to your needs before they do their own stuff because otherwise they will get ahead of you, and your goal is to get ahead of everyone else.” I wish people would grow up and realize that there is more to life than just “getting ahead at work.” Maybe you could be the most “ahead” person at work but you could still be a jackass in the real world. And that’s really what matters in the “final judgement”, right?

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