#276: Have cheese with your whine
I recently said that I could see a silver lining in this cloud of bad news. I see it in the return of good manners and polite behavior as people afraid of losing jobs and companies afraid of losing customers start behaving better.
But every silver lining has a dark cloud. Many dark clouds have turned up their volume lately because they think that their time has come.
I’m talking about the moaners and the whiners. We meet them every day and sometimes them is us.
What do you do when you run into one? Do you grin and bear it? Do you engage and argue? Here are my two favorite strategies. First I try the law of two feet. Yes, that’s right. Walk away. Don’t participate, it just encourages them.
And if I can’t get away, what then? I ask the moaner if he wants some cheese to go with his whine.
Devastating, yes, but so effective.
I’m James McIntosh at nonsenseatwork.com
Copyright: 2009 James Henry McIntosh
James can be heard on Public Radio: Monday - 7:19am and Saturday - 8:19am
88.9 FM WCVE, Richmond VA | 89.1 FM WCNV, Heathsville VA | 90.1 FM WMVE, Chase City VA
But every silver lining has a dark cloud. Many dark clouds have turned up their volume lately because they think that their time has come.
I’m talking about the moaners and the whiners. We meet them every day and sometimes them is us.
What do you do when you run into one? Do you grin and bear it? Do you engage and argue? Here are my two favorite strategies. First I try the law of two feet. Yes, that’s right. Walk away. Don’t participate, it just encourages them.
And if I can’t get away, what then? I ask the moaner if he wants some cheese to go with his whine.
Devastating, yes, but so effective.
I’m James McIntosh at nonsenseatwork.com
Copyright: 2009 James Henry McIntosh
James can be heard on Public Radio: Monday - 7:19am and Saturday - 8:19am
88.9 FM WCVE, Richmond VA | 89.1 FM WCNV, Heathsville VA | 90.1 FM WMVE, Chase City VA
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