I wonder
Sometimes I wonder what it would take to get a glowing approval rating from my coworkers, my boss, my peers, my clients. I mean, seriously, what would I have to do? What would it take? What kind of person would I have to be to accomplish such a feat?
I think no matter how hard you try, you would run into a wall. The law of diminishing returns would kick into effect, and before you know it, your outputting such a high rate of effort, your overall incremental gains approach zero.
You would just burn out.
I try. I really do. I try hard to make people happy. I take on their problems in a detached manner so I can effectively prioritize and manage the issues at hand. But for some people that just isn’t enough.
Unless you are bleeding their blood, your efforts are just never enough.
That is frustrating. Because it feels so hypocritical to me. They are expecting the world of you, but I know that I don’t hold such high expectations of them. In fact I carry little to no expectations of them. My boss is probably the only one that I really expect things from. My coworkers, not really. My peers, nothing much. My teammate, a little here and there, but still nothing major.
Perhaps that is not hypocritical. Just human nature. But I still want to be the best.
Maybe that is what keeps me going. Maybe that is why I take the complaints like I do. I am told not to take it personally, but seriously, when you want to be good to everyone, and be regarded as good by at least most of them, you have to take it personally.
That is the only way you take ownership in getting it appropriately addressed.
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