A Shift in my Outlook

I had an intresting talk with my boss yesterday. I never realized how rough I had been with some of the people I work with. I'm one of these people who loathe stupid questions. Every time one of my staff asks me where something is, I'm generally busy, and I get really pissed off when they disturb me while I'm trying to get things done. I saw by the look on his face that I had done something wrong. I went in to his office to apologise for my behavior after we had gotten through our evening rush. We spent about half an hour talking and in that time I realised how much alike we really are. He told me a story about how when he was the way I had been acting, his staff was happy when he left that location and it had stunted his career growth. It took him some time to realise that he needed to change how he acted in order to have his people respect him.

I decided last night to start treating my staff with the respect that I want in return. I still loathe idiocy and stupid questions. I'm still exhausted from working my ass off. Today I started doing the things that he told me that worked for him and everyone has noticed the change in my demeanor. It's a work in progress, but I'm going to keep doing it in order to get more work out of my staff and make my life easier. I'm hoping that this may help me in my personal life as well. I remember that at the beginning of the year that I was going to change my outlook on everything, but the day to day minutae had started dragging me down. I had lost sight of who I want to become and who I need to be. It's time to starting doing it and stop geting pissed off at others for being idiots. It's time to treat others well and hope that they do it in return.

See Ya'll on the flip side.