Maybe this is something lisah's rude co-worker would be good at.

Ha! He actually works for another contractor, so I guess he's a colleague not co-worker exactly. At any rate, I'm wondering if his team put him up to talking to me about something bugging all of them because he's so mild mannered and polite usually?

It's not like a series of documentaries will suddenly put clothes on everyone.

Indeed. What really shocks me is that they're so upset about anyone even talking about this. She hasn't even made the videos yet!

OMMFG, your guys' shouting isn't actually less distracting because you're doing it in a language I don't understand. For god's sake hush or move.

Okay, I'm obviously wound tight today. Chewing behind me, loud heated arguments in front of me. And I'm not supposed to be working from home why again?

It'd be disruptive.

Seattleites (and Portlandia residents) are so very non-aggressive. So. Very. It makes me aggressive in response, actually, like I think I can shock them out of it.

I think I gave up and went local-ish. People are just honestly nice and I get over a lot for that. Like them not knowing how to operate a four-way stop sign.

Like them not knowing how to operate a four-way stop sign.

Tear them down and put in a roundabout?

I think I'm mostly nice. The problem I think this guy (and maybe everybody else in the room but he's the only one who said anything) has is that I don't give people a chance to finish what they are saying, I guess? Or I talk over people? Which, I know I'm guilty of that sometimes but, the thing is, we are having these requirements elicitation meetings involving multiple groups of people, some in the room and some on the phone, and we have to get through a lot of material (and try to get the client to make a decision) in a relatively short amount of time. Conversation is an important part of the process--it's how things get figured out--but it's hard to put a lid on there being multiple conversations at once and it's hard to get those conversations to come to a conclusion. Today I was leading the session and I had to both keep things moving along and make sure I was understanding the, sometimes, multiple conversations. And I guess I was answering people's questions before they could finish asking them. But I wish they'd just said something at the time, I wouldn't have cared if somebody was like, "Hush, Lisa, I need to finish my sentence" but I was really upset because the way he brought it up after made me feel like it was a HUGE character flaw that everyone has been bothered by for a long time and that I'd been acting like an oblivious asshole for months and getting in the way of work getting done and pissing off the client (he specifically mentioned me stepping on the lines of our business owner).

Thanks for letting me complain about this here, you guys, I couldn't really type it all out earlier on my phone and CLEARLY it's still bugging me. Even though my boss was very cool about it all right away and checked in on me at the end of the day.

Tear them down and put in a roundabout?

Roundabouts make the baby American Jesus cry!

There was a roundabout by my brother's second apartment in Vermont. It was at that point that I knew Vermont was...different.

Roundabouts make the baby American Jesus cry!

The baby American Jesus can drink whisky from the cat bowl for all I care.

The baby American Jesus can drink whisky from the cat bowl for all I care.

Is it wrong that I want to add "and film it and show it every year at Christmas" to that sentence?