Thread: a work question
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Old Dec 15, 2016, 11:42 AM
leejosepho leejosepho is offline
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Although maybe never all at once, I have experienced a little of all of that at various times in various places throughout my life, and the challenge has ultimately been in learning what is truly appropriate even when there might not be anything or anyone capable of actually stopping me from doing one thing or another. For example:

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... fighting his own co on [customers'] behalf ...
If he wants to run and manage the company differently, he first needs to be its owner.

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... could verbally joust on the job and be the life of everyone's circle ...
Being liked by everyone is fine, but that is not what he was hired to do.

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... actually worrying...not about work but what he was not able to be helpful ...
If the employer is not demanding all-time perfection, then he is back to trying to write his own job description.

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...because others were just not up to his level of perfection ...
Same answer in relation to the job descriptions of others.

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... not caring about over time but working off the clock for free because he was so needed ...
Truly so, or only because of the above?

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... being all things to all women at work, (they want him) ...
See response # 2.

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the next week (weeks), being so depressed and such a failure he needs meds just to face the day ...
Dealing with the above would likely be helpful there.
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Thanks for this!
wiretwister