My boss said the nicest thing to me this afternoon. I saw that A and R were at loggerheads yet again, whihc is always the SNAFU over there. R thinks he eneds to whip A into shape and A thinks R is out to get him. In reality, A has a mildly retarded-seeming (I'm being dead serious) inability to get attention other than by acting "weird" and "random", by being annoying on purpose. he's that thirteen year old who hasn't figured out how to get positive responses from anyone, so he goes with people snapping at him to stop being so weird, because at least they notice him! This is what socially retarded tweens do. Seriously, the dude is 38, and his twin brother (!!!!!) is a pediatrician (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!).
Anyway, I asked M how the drama-level was today. She said, seriously, I shouldn't say this because it's probably unprofessional, but I wish everyone here was just like you. If I could have seven you's, I'd be so much happier. You don't bring any drama, you just do your job and act like a normal person, and you don't feed into all this other people's bullshit. Then she went on to how professional I was, and even in my evaluation, I told Claire, if I could give this kid Excellents across the board, I would, and she agreed with me. Then she asked me if I was looking for other jobs in Pearson, or outside, and I explained all the bullshit about how few jobs are being posted and so on. Anyway, she said that she or Claire would give me excellent references. I think either one of them could write a great reference for an Med degree somewhere. They see that half of what I do is get people to behave like adults, help people organize their work, think through problems logically. All I do is teach grown men who are basically giant babies how to act like semi-normal human beings!
At any rate, even though I'm getting so frustrated with the company skipping over me, it was really nice to get those words of encouragement.
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