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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 330534" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Tell me - does aunt talk with initial caps? You know, the sort of person who says, "Why can't we All Be Friends," or "we should all Learn to Play Nicely."</p><p></p><p>I had a woman at work who was like this. She was in the secretarial pool of another professor. I had the job of supervising junior staff and we had a very junior staff member who was really incompetent. I would explain how she needed to do her job to my boss's satisfaction, but she still kept getting it wrong. I would be sent down to explain/chastise/whatever and then the junior would go in tears to the secretary, who then came to me to tell me that I wasn't Being Very Nice and we all Needed to Get Along. The secretary would then leave beaming with joy and goodwill, satisfied in a Job Well Done while I quietly mimed choking someone to death.</p><p></p><p>The secretary had absolutely no idea and wouldn't understand when I explained - I was doing my job in trying to make the junior do hers. It was purely professional, nothing personal and to make it something personal was to totally sabotage any attempts I could make, to help the junior learn what to do.</p><p></p><p>Such Harbingers of Goodwill generally are clueless as well as trying to make everybody else follow their lead, in an attempt to assuage their own guilt feelings at not always feeling too empathetic at all times.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 330534, member: 1991"] Tell me - does aunt talk with initial caps? You know, the sort of person who says, "Why can't we All Be Friends," or "we should all Learn to Play Nicely." I had a woman at work who was like this. She was in the secretarial pool of another professor. I had the job of supervising junior staff and we had a very junior staff member who was really incompetent. I would explain how she needed to do her job to my boss's satisfaction, but she still kept getting it wrong. I would be sent down to explain/chastise/whatever and then the junior would go in tears to the secretary, who then came to me to tell me that I wasn't Being Very Nice and we all Needed to Get Along. The secretary would then leave beaming with joy and goodwill, satisfied in a Job Well Done while I quietly mimed choking someone to death. The secretary had absolutely no idea and wouldn't understand when I explained - I was doing my job in trying to make the junior do hers. It was purely professional, nothing personal and to make it something personal was to totally sabotage any attempts I could make, to help the junior learn what to do. Such Harbingers of Goodwill generally are clueless as well as trying to make everybody else follow their lead, in an attempt to assuage their own guilt feelings at not always feeling too empathetic at all times. Marg [/QUOTE]
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