Pick Your Fights
There are times when I really hate passionately dislike some of the contractors I work with. Luckily it doesn’t happen too often – I can only think of a handful of those moments over the past 25 years, but when I step back and widen my view, those moments tend to happen with the same contractor (i.e. […]
There are times when I really hate passionately dislike some of the contractors I work with. Luckily it doesn’t happen too often – I can only think of a handful of those moments over the past 25 years, but when I step back and widen my view, those moments tend to happen with the same contractor (i.e. if I have 20 bad moments, 2 contractors are responsible for 15 of those moments), or at least the same type of contractor. Since I like to consider myself a fairly positive person, I try to view these moments as learning exercises and add them to my experience bank so I can keep them from happening repeatedly, but it doesn’t mean that I find it any less irritating. A long time ago, I was completely, and unnecessarily, adversarial in how I approached job site issues. “I am right” was my shield, and “You are stupid” was my sword … and I won a lot of fights. I should really call these “arguments” because I haven’t actually punched anyone in my life, and words are far more damaging long-term. That and if one of these contractors punched me, that would also probably do some long term damage. Altho...
There are times when I really hate passionately dislike some of the contractors I work with. Luckily it doesn’t happen too often – I can only think of a handful of those moments over the past 25 years, but when I step back and widen my view, those moments tend to happen with the same contractor (i.e. if I have 20 bad moments, 2 contractors are responsible for 15 of those moments), or at least the same type of contractor. Since I like to consider myself a fairly positive person, I try to view these moments as learning exercises and add them to my experience bank so I can keep them from happening repeatedly, but it doesn’t mean that I find it any less irritating. A long time ago, I was completely, and unnecessarily, adversarial in how I approached job site issues. “I am right” was my shield, and “You are stupid” was my sword … and I won a lot of fights. I should really call these “arguments” because I haven’t actually punched anyone in my life, and words are far more damaging long-term. That and if one of these contractors punched me, that would also probably do some long term damage. Altho...
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