Disclaimer: this is a rant. It is going to contain swear words. If you don’t like reading bad language, then stop reading now.
Do you want to know what gives me the shits? More than anything else? I do not like being rudely interrupted when I having a conversation with someone. Maybe I’m being a bit of a dick about this but it irritates me no end. It happens all the time in my workplace and it is getting to the point where I am going to say something to someone and I might just get in trouble doing so. The fact is, I’m not a big wig at work. I’m not even a middle wig. I’m just a lowly administration person. But I should be accorded the same polite respect as everyone else, as far as I’m concerned.
I’ve been in the middle of work-related conversations with my boss and had different people walk up, stand between her and I and begin talking over the top of me, like I simply don’t exist. I’ve had people knock on my desk while I am on the phone talking to someone, only to ask me a ridiculously unimportant question that could have waited until I’d finished my call. I’ve even been in the middle of conversations with workmates and had others completely cut me off and talk over the top of me while I was halfway through replying to a question. In all cases, those who have done this have been, in a hierarchical sense, senior to me. Their behaviour implies that becoming a manager or coordinator or senior arselicker means one can also forget their fucking manners. It is as though they think what they have to say is far more important than anything I might have to say.
I’m not a violent person. Heck, I have problems killing ants, cockroaches or spiders (I’m a catch and release type of person). This has a lot to do with my Buddhist beliefs but also because I believe every living thing is entitled to live its life. So what if it’s a cockroach who has come into my home. Its what ‘roaches do, it is in its nature to do this. Who am I to end its life because it followed its nature? But this is off-topic.
There have been times when my anger has risen so quickly, I do believe if I had the opportunity, I would choke the living crap out of one of these interrupters. I also think those I am talking to should take some responsibility as well and give the interrupters a serve. Maybe if people spent a little bit more time being polite and considerate towards each other, the world wouldn’t be in the fucking violent, dangerous mess it is in at the moment.
I am not going to take it anymore. The next person who does this, regardless of who it is, will bear the brunt of my anger. They better start praying to whatever god they believe in now…
