[Mystry]

hurt someone today and I feel really bad about it...I work at a recycling plant where there are 12 others who stand on a line and sort garbage...six on either side of a conveyer belt...my job is to catch the plastic and throw it into a bin...well the guy across from me does the same thing except this afternoon he closed the lid on his side and started throwing them across to my bin which was fine...we were going along just great but one piece got by me so I leaned over to grab it just as he was throwing a container...got me right in the face...I laughed it off because it was my bad...anyway...a little while later he did it again...I was pissed but again my bad...I grumbled about it to myself because he didn't even say he was sorry...and dont you know he did it again but this time I wasn't leaning across in front of him and in my mind he meant to hit me...I leaned across and dragged his *** onto the belt and I told him that if he did it again he would get hurt...after that he started throwing them back on his side...I wanted to much to punch him in the face...on the bus going home I felt so bad about dragging him across the belt that I couldn't even look at him...it takes alot to push my buttons and usually I have control of that emotion...all I know is that it hurts getting a piece of hard plastic in the face...well...thanks for letting me get that out...

[January]

(((((((((( Mystry )))))))))

It certainly doesn't sound as if your coworker was being very careful.

I think all of us have moments where we just lose it. Try not to be so hard on yourself. You just proved you are human.

Jan

lyle..i think you showed great restraint for not pounding the guy!.......i'm sorry that he hurt you.......

[Fuzzybear]

(((((((((((((((( Mystry ))))))))))))))))

[eskielover]

Actually you probably did the best thing possible....next time he thinks about throwing plactis at you,,,,,maybe he will think twice before doing it next time. Sometimes people have to understant that what they are doing isn't ok...otherwise they keep on doing it. We have to set limits at times,....this was the time after it happened that many times. Sure, we might be able to set our limits in a nicer way, but when we are pushed, they are lucky to get a reminder as nicely as you did it.

It's ok to set limits as to how people are treating you....you may have learned something this time too....in that you may think of a better way of setting your limits with people the next time it happens....but it doesn't mean that you don't have to set your limits.

It's a learning process all around,
Debbie

(((((hugs))))... I think you showed a great deal of constraint..
I also think that you have now set a limit..with this guy.. and that is good.. or it would contiune on...

it is hard world out there.. and I hear my son (23) talk about having from time to time.. having to do stuff like this to set "things" straight..

so please don't be hard on yourself...