Boudicca's Voice

Blank Brain

There is stuff rolling around in my head, it's just kind of crazy here and when I go to put type to screen, my mind draws a blank as to what I was laughing about just hours earlier.

Some sort of blog dementia, I think.

So more tomorrow as I'm going to carry a 3x5 card with me to jot notes on to remind myself what I want to write.

On a side note, work related, I stumbled upon a phrase that I think will get me far.

There are times that folks I work with at Company X will not listen to me. I have yet to figure out whether it is because they are so full of themselves, because I am a subcontractor or I'm a female. I strongly suspect all three in the case of one or two people. I know the last one definitely comes into play, but I've learned to deal with it over the past 22 years.

Last week I gave some advice on a touchy matter. The guy on the other end of the phone had his own ideas, something I strongly disagreed with.

He would not listen to me. It didn't matter what I said or how I laid out the facts, he wanted it his way.

And so finally I took a deep breath and said, "I understand where you are coming from, but I refuse to present that to the US Air Force because if I do, I will get flogged because of the fallacy of your argument XYZ, however YOU can feel free to present it to them and I'll just listen. I may even bring popcorn."

I won.

I'm keeping that little nugget in my sack of tricks to use as a last resort. I'm not sure why I never saw that sooner. Hunh.

Posted by Boudicca at March 7, 2010 11:44 PM