No, I don't plan on using it to wrap around my body to make my measurements smaller.....hey wait - would that work? Moving on! I need it for my MOUTH!
You see, sometimes I get just a little too excited about something, and I talk about it too much. Other times I get a little (OK maybe a lot) passionate about an opinion, and I talk about it. Then there is the case in which I say the same thing a few times over for no apparent reason. I get nervous, upset, a mushy mood, busy, stressed....I talk. Are we seeing a pattern here? I. TALK. TOO. MUCH!
This isn't news to me, and if you know me in "real" life, it's likely not news to you either, but here is the problem. Someone at work accused me a few years ago (by way of a supervisor) of lacking the professionalism to know when not to talk. This person wasn't accusing me of talking about things I shouldn't have or not knowing how to be confidential or anything like that, they were just saying that sometimes I don't wait - I just talk. At the time it upset me, and made me very defensive, surely - I didn't butt in and talk at inappropriate times - I mean come on, I talk a lot but I also know when to shut up!
Well a few years later, and a few years wiser and I realize that sometimes I do tend to assume that two people are having a casual conversation, and since I have a work thing to talk about - it won't kill them if I just interject for one minute to get the work done. After all, aren't I being the responsible employee in the situation? Instead of sitting around yakking about my weekend - I'M WORKING. So how can I be the one lacking the professionalism!?!?! Well guess what, I've realized that it doesn't matter if I need to talk about work when they are not, I should wait or send an email so I don't forget. Basically I need to learn when NOT to talk! Every time I catch myself saying "oh real quick I just needed to ask....", I end up walking away feeling like a loser. Someone please pass the duct tape, this is going to be a hard learning curve!
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