LIES MY PARENTS TOLD ME (Part #1)

I am doing this blog in hopes that I can talk myself out of flattening some tires – or poisoning some office coffee, or maybe be more mild and wet someones office chair. I sit here absolutely frustrated, stressed and ready to jump off of a bridge – I started to think of advice my parents gave me – pretty well all my life – as I am a fairly volatile person! So here starts the beginning of Lies My Parents Told Me…..with a look at do they actually really work in every phase of my life! (Not a good result up to this point!)
# 1 – Just be nice to them and they’ll be nice to you.
Okay – like this really works!? Remember this one? Didn’t work on the school playground – and it doesn’t work in the workplace. Especially when one has a boss who is a “predator” and sees everyone else in the office as a “rabbit” or a “mouse” – just something she can sink her teeth into. I mean – try telling a “rabbit” or a “mouse” to be nice to the “fox”…….most times - niceness will be interpreted by the predator as a weakness and will try and toy with you until they get you just in the right spot where they will rip your face off – don’t fool yourself….you are doing nothing by “being nice”, except giving the “predator” an ins to your demise.
# 2 – Just ignore them, they’ll go away.
Once again – you being the “rabbit or the “mouse” – ignoring the fox doesn’t make him go away – does it? Ignoring never wins if your boss is sneaky or nasty…trying to convice these “predators” that you are a predator yourself, by puffing up – (by ignoring them) – sorta gives the game away doesn’t it? I mean – I tried that – I was circled, she got right into my space and my face, she stood in my blind spot, she crowded me and she constantly steered the conversation into her court – while I was speaking………I may look like a “rabbit” or a “mouse” (though I have NEVER really seen myself as a victim – I am more of an “alpha” what ever – not a predator – nor a victim), to her I am that bunny or rodent – she definitely has to get her antenae tuned! She is a scavenger – nothing else – and ignoring a scavenger doesn’t do anyone any good! So – what I am left with is to get this “predator” in my cross hairs……..it will be so unexpected! But which “cross hairs” shall I use? (the office coffe, chair, etc.)

I am not a “Bunny” damn it! Nor am I a little fuzzy, hopping “rodent”. I have great periferal vision – so no one stands in my blind spot – no one stands in “my space” and no one will turn me into a dead bunny or mouse….dead as in brainless, spineless, and there is no way I will be the next meal…….so if Ignoring them or being nice doesn’t work……….what the heck does? Still trying to figure it out……..Diz
(more Lies My Parents Told Me to come…..Man – I have plenty!)