Anger Management

For the most part I manage anger through avoidance. For example, stupid people piss me off. I avoid stupid people. Pretty simple. Granted, this is not the best way to solve the problem. I have read "The Art of Happiness" many times and I am well aware of the fact that being open minded and understanding is key to achieving happiness.

So, why tell you about this? One of my favorite bloggers left this note on her blog today...

"Note: Do not use the comments box to give advice or diagnoses regarding my father. Just don't. Because I promise I will crawl through the internet and cut you."

...I was reminded that I didn't tell you about my latest and greatest achievement at work.

Work pisses me off. The frustration with working for "the man" caused me to explode during a meeting (just a team meeting not anything with the execs). My co-workers refer to it as project manager Tourett's. I just kicked up a notch. To the point that one of my smart ass co-workers decided to say, "Watch your tone missy." She was trying to bring life to the room that I just sucked the life out of with my explosion.

My boss came to me to say that she was concerned about my "tone" during the meeting. We talked for a bit. I don't like her tone. She has one of those "mom-I-want-everything-to-be-ok" voices. Kind of timid and weak sounding. Annoys the hell out of me.

I got a high five from a co-worker that gets the "I am concerned about your tone" talk on a daily basis. I am now one of the cool kids.

In other news: We did a sweep of sharp objects in the offices of "at risk" project managers. Well the project managers weren't at risk. The stupid people were the ones at risk.