Distorted Cerebration

I’ve been a so called leader a few times in my lifetime. I’ve had good times and bad times. All in all though I will actively try not to be a leader ever again. The stress part of it aside, the real bane of leading is the “then I’ll quit” people.

You know those people. The ones that disagree with something and then make some suggestion that when not praised as the saving grace of whatever the current ailment is state “then I’ll just quit”.

I use to try and keep the peace. Try to make them understand that yes there comments are welcomed. Now… GTFO if you’re gonna be like that.

It’s a tactic that I’ve seen way too often, typically from people that do nothing but complain but don’t do any of the work. Moving forward in anything is so much more of a chore when you drag people like that along.

Now to up the ante on the level of annoyance of these people, they also do the whole “that’s not what I meant” thing.

You know what I mean. First they say “This sucks, I hate it”. Then when you call them out on it their response is “I never said it sucks. You misinterpreted what I said”.

Umm… no you said “it sucks”. In fact this situation happens a lot on message boards, so you can quote them:

Annoyance wrote:

This sucks. I hate it.

To which their reply of course is ” That’s not what I really meant”.

Bullshit. If that’s not what you meant, then don’t say/type it. Mean what you say. Say what you mean (”and as always, England Prevails!”).

Honestly how hard is it to take a minute, 60 seconds to review what you write for tone and how others may perceive what you’re saying.

Ugh.

The only thing that could top this crap sundae, is those people who say whatever it takes to get people pissed off (following the “this sucks” mantra), and then when others get pissed off, they act like the victim.

“Bullet in the brain pan. Squish.”