Stress Management

For the most part, I tend to be a fairly laid back person. I've found that most of the things I'd let myself get worked up about were really inconsequential when I looked back at them.

So now when something goes wrong and instead of freaking out, I roll with it, figure out how to fix it and move on. Not that I'm without my share of freakouts, some things are just too much and all at once. But when this does happen I tend to recover fairly quickly.

I really wish I could say the same about my boss. I know this is a blogging no-no, but when one little thing sets off a domino effect of everything else going bonkers, something is wrong. My coworkers agree with me, that a lot of little things get blown out of proportion and that when she gets stressed and upset she takes it all out on us. She wants us to all work as a team and she doesn't want to babysit us, yet everytime we make a decision as a team and get stuff done on our own, it's not exactly how she wants it so we get yelled at. So when we bring everything to her attention she gets up in arms and "doesn't have any time for this."

There's no middle ground. It's really dissapointing because when things are cool and everything is running as normal, she can be a blast. She's talking and joking and everything looks peachy. But one little thing goes wrong. Someone's late 5 minutes, something got posted wrong by proof, the printer wasn't on first thing in the morning, someone calls in sick, someone has to redo a cashier's check, another branch calls to get something and we take care of it first... you're starting to get the idea. One little thing, and EVERYTHING is wrong. It's a complete 180.

I want to be able to make this work. I like this company a lot, it's principals closely mirror my own. But when it's like I have to consult a Magic 8 Ball to determine my bosses mood... it's very hard to deal with.

Neglected Little Blog

aka The Little Blog That Could.

I post to livejournal a lot. I occasionally post to myspace. Once in a blue moon I'll post a journal entry on Deviant Art, but only if it is something related to my gallery.

Here... let's just say that it's a little lonely.

Perhaps that will change.

Originally I wanted to use this blog for more rants/essay pieces on random subjects. But I've been filtering my livejournal to account for all of that.

And then I didn't get nearly as verbose as I thought I would.

Silly me. :-)