Welcome to my new home. I've decided to relocate to a new blog and to give myself a fresh start here. Not to mention, I can sign up for Google AdSense and even make a few extra pennies through some ads in my sidebars that may or may not have anything to do with what I am writing. We'll see what happens.
We begin today with Loud Typer. Yesterday, another co-worker we will call Delilah* (*to protect her identity) confirmed that, indeed, Loud Typer assaults her sense of hearing, as well. Delilah and I had a great laugh as she also confirmed that he has a loud breathing problem - something I identified during the first few days of Loud Typer's employment. If I didn't know better, I would have assumed that LT had a live porn stream in the lower right section of his monitor showing on a regular basis that was inducing the amplified exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide coming from his corner of the office.
It wasn't long ago that I politely asked him one day if he was angry about something. He wasn't, of course. Then I decided that my next plan of action would be to swipe his keyboard on an unspecified date. Yes, that's right, I would revoke his keyboard privileges. He would have to do all of his work via dictation, a tape recorder, and cheap overseas labor.
Lately, I have been studying the art of forgiveness. I will probably elaborate more on this subject in future posts. It is something that I admit, I am not very good at. I tend to "forgive" people and still feel anger toward them. Forgiveness can be quite tricky. It is one thing to forgive someone for doing one single thing to hurt you, but it is another to forgive them on a regular basis when they repeatedly make you angry.
LT will serve as Challenge #1 as I learn how to do the latter. I am not quite sure how it will work, though. "Geez, you piss me off but I forgive you. You're pissing me off again and I'm forgiving you again. And again." Every pound of the keyboard, every gallop across the keys, every cloud of smoke emitting from his hands is another sting of anger and annoyance. I hardly have time to even forgive him between visions of splitting the keyboard over his head.
Let's continue to explore this topic in another post. LT isn't in the room for a short moment and I need to bask in his exit.
