Condo suckfest continues. Just crossing everything that the crazy lady living there leaves as planned.

My neighborhood is making me cry today. A neighbor moved to oregan to help her son get a kidney transplant. His first was at age 7 - and today he got another. Her thank you was enough, but then some one else got on the egroup and started listing all the good things that people do for each other around here. there may be a huge amount of stupid stuff on the egroup - like traffic stories - but a good place

Wishing you the best Nora

Oof. Driving up and down hills when the roads aren't plowed yet is not fun. My car handles skids really well, though.

Anyone else picturing Hil doing Tokyo Drift?

ION - in last meeting for the day. Exhausted! One of the students has a glass bottle of Mexico Coke Cola (sugar instead of HFCS), and I am wanting one so much now!! The drive home should be fun.

quester I've gotten some flack for not being friendly enough and getting dinged by a former supervisor for not being chipper enough in the mornings. Normally when she would come in I'd say "hi" or "morning" or just nod at her if I was busy on the phone or something. I realized she wanted me to say not just "Good Morning" but "Good Morning Her Name". So I started doing that and it made a difference and i'm better about saying people's names when I greet them.

My current boss is pretty easy going. I get treated like an adult and have some lee way in how I treat people on the phone. I work for an association so I have to be polite and grin and bear it for any member or caller who is part of the profession we represent. But if someone who is just "the public" calls and starts to get rude or verbally abusive, or just plain annoying I have my boss's (and his boss's) permission to hang up on them.

I never say people's names because I don't remember them, especially when I see them. I hear people's voices, but the cubicle walls are high so I don't see the faces. I've been too lazy to make an effort, too, to be honest. And some of the people I don't want to talk to because they're creepy!

Where I work I know most people's faces and names now because they walk by my desk all the time. I can't tell where anyone's office is but I know them

I don't know people who work upstairs in the other building.

Also there's a lot of gossip and stuff that goes on in the reception area. We don't have people walking in off the streets so I've found stuff I out I shouldn't have known.

Well we get a lot of solicitor's who ignore our No Soliciting Sign and then get pissed when I tell them they have to leave.

I so don't want to drive in to work tomorrow morning. The roads will be a mess still. I don't teach on Thursdays, but I've got a meeting I need to go to in the morning.

Quester--I don't think you have to change yourself, you simply have to change a few of your behaviors. A coach could help you pinpoint specific things to work on--eye contaqct, tone of voice, smiling, whatever, and you will be able to freaking ace the workplace without changing who you are inside.