Could you work with Vladimir Putin? Reports this morning say he has announced that he has won the election and is back in power but there are questions around the legality of the elections.
Do you have people that announce things that benefit themselves, without consideration of any consequence for others? Are there people in your work place who take things that may or not be theirs to take? How do you react and how do you let it affect you?
Some of us get angry and annoyed. It's easy to do. It feels justified - the other person was obviously wrong and the more we tell ourselves that, the more convinced we become. Before you go too far down that route though, stop and check. It could be they are entitled to make the announcement and that it is not their responsibility to check how you will feel first. Deal with it - in this case you are the one causing yourself the problems by choosing to feel aggrieved or annoyed. You also have the choice not to feel that way but . accept the situation and move on instead. Likewise, if they have taken something, it could be that actually it does by rights belong to them. Again, deal with it.
If however they have taken something that you believe they have no right to, then something maybe needs to be done. First, check whether your perception is indeed the correct one. It could be they have simply borrowed it and neglected to ask first. Alternatively the question of ownership may not have crossed their mind since they assumed it to be company property available to anyone. Before you shoot your mouth off, making life more difficult for you and others, get the facts and try to understand other people's viewpoints. If it is just that you got the wrong end of the stick then the situation can be dealt with quite easily - you accept that you are the difficult person to work with and, assuming that's not what you want, you can make some changes.
On the occasion that you are right, you may need to actually involve other people if the individual has contravened one of the written or assumed company policies. In that case, clear up the matter as quickly and tidily as you can, retrieve the article and then forgive them. Move on. Metaphorically or possibly to a new job if you've just blown the whistle on a senior manager.
Alternatively, hold a grudge against that person for ages into the future, adding it to the other misdemeanours that stick to your jaundiced and stereotypical view of them thereby making it even harder to work alongside them in the future. Your call.
Do you have people that announce things that benefit themselves, without consideration of any consequence for others? Are there people in your work place who take things that may or not be theirs to take? How do you react and how do you let it affect you?
Some of us get angry and annoyed. It's easy to do. It feels justified - the other person was obviously wrong and the more we tell ourselves that, the more convinced we become. Before you go too far down that route though, stop and check. It could be they are entitled to make the announcement and that it is not their responsibility to check how you will feel first. Deal with it - in this case you are the one causing yourself the problems by choosing to feel aggrieved or annoyed. You also have the choice not to feel that way but . accept the situation and move on instead. Likewise, if they have taken something, it could be that actually it does by rights belong to them. Again, deal with it.
If however they have taken something that you believe they have no right to, then something maybe needs to be done. First, check whether your perception is indeed the correct one. It could be they have simply borrowed it and neglected to ask first. Alternatively the question of ownership may not have crossed their mind since they assumed it to be company property available to anyone. Before you shoot your mouth off, making life more difficult for you and others, get the facts and try to understand other people's viewpoints. If it is just that you got the wrong end of the stick then the situation can be dealt with quite easily - you accept that you are the difficult person to work with and, assuming that's not what you want, you can make some changes.
On the occasion that you are right, you may need to actually involve other people if the individual has contravened one of the written or assumed company policies. In that case, clear up the matter as quickly and tidily as you can, retrieve the article and then forgive them. Move on. Metaphorically or possibly to a new job if you've just blown the whistle on a senior manager.
Alternatively, hold a grudge against that person for ages into the future, adding it to the other misdemeanours that stick to your jaundiced and stereotypical view of them thereby making it even harder to work alongside them in the future. Your call.
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