Dear So and So

[KnottedYet]

Dear Powers That Be,

Please teach me patience. Let me be calm in the face of a domineering ego-centric new employee. Let me laugh it off as "special needs" and not take it as "specially demanding."

I can only control my own attitude in this situation. Teach me how to control my attitude, before my attitude becomes a " 'tude."

[bmccasland]

Dear Powers That Be,

Please teach me patience. Let me be calm in the face of a domineering ego-centric new employee. Let me laugh it off as "special needs" and not take it as "specially demanding."

I can only control my own attitude in this situation. Teach me how to control my attitude, before my attitude becomes a " 'tude."

Ummm, Knotted, I've learned that praying to be taught patience isn't such a good idea. You'll need it to survive. Skip that line.

Start with calm in the face of the silly new employee. Then envision that you're squashing them like the bug that they are.

Good luck! I have a mentee (I'm her mentor, so that makes her a mentee) who teeters on the high maintenance category, so I feel you pain. A soap opera could be built around her life. Fortunately she does do good work.

[SouthernBelle]

I did get a new Palm Treo 700p yesterday!

[firenze11]

Dear So and So,

Please stop taking out your frustrations on me and the people around you. Find a new way to relieve your stress. I don't like having to walk on eggshells to avoid your landmine-like temper. Then minutes later you act like nothing is wrong at all. I'm afraid to even talk to you anymore.

Firenze

[Bad JuJu]

Dear So and So,

Please stop taking out your frustrations on me and the people around you. Find a new way to relieve your stress. I don't like having to walk on eggshells to avoid your landmine-like temper. Then minutes later you act like nothing is wrong at all. I'm afraid to even talk to you anymore.

Firenze

I feel your pain. I have a colleague that I avoid as if she were a mound of fire ants--too bad because we have the basis of what could be a nice little friendship--shared professional and personal interests. Sadly, though, she's neither trustworthy nor even-tempered. Rumor has it she's going on the job market, so things are looking up.

[redrhodie]

Dear Super Star,

Yes, I googled your address. You moved to my town, and I figured your estate was on my route. Well, now I seem to have a virus that's not letting me use mapquest, or google maps, or yahoo maps.

I was just mildly curious. I should have the right to look at a map again!

[Andrea]

Dear Nashbar and Performance Bike,

I like your low prices, but your practice of profiting from your shipping charges is enough to make me never shop with you again.

First, you charge shipping not by weight/size, but by cost of order! WTF?

Next, I pay for 2nd day air and you ship it ground because it *should* get to me at the same time, but then when noone is in my front office, the shipper delays my delivery until the third day. You give me a partial shipping refund to try and appease me, but maybe you should have just done right in the first place

Finally, the next (LAST!) time I order, I think I am wising up and only pay for ground shipping, however, your "ground" shipping is FedEx smartpost- a bulk-mail collaboration between FedEx and USPS that takes up to 10 days to make a delivery. I check shipping rates for that method and it's less than half of what I paid.

I already used the internet sparingly for purchases (go LBS!), but I've had it with you guys. You've officially lost a customer.