Chafing
Some people really rub me the wrong way. This surprises and unnerves me, because one of my primary goals in my conduct is to understand the reasoning and motivations of those I associate with. Doing so allows me to review the activities and reactions of that individual in the context of the environment as he or she is aware of it.
This does not mean I agree with that person, become an apologetic for them or allow my position of intended reasonable-ness to be trampled in the event that the person is unreasonable. It is to allow me a justified detachment of “this is what this person thinks and why,” which alleviates an immediate perplexion of, “how can a person possibly assert this view or action in a sane universe?” This latter question has the “sane universe” construct which maps to my own relative perspective in similar fashion.
A person then, in this approach, becomes an encapsulated entity in the manner that they are inserted into my own comprehension and excused from knowing how to operate therein effectively. In exchange, I allow the person his or her own idiosyncrasies and dismiss the related weird manifestations as the ramblings of an individual with these particular oddities.
This typically works, everyone gets to be themselves, and I feel comfortable in my judgment and treatment of others.
Despite this though, some people really bother me. I’m not hard to get along with, and still make the effort, but in some instances I find myself unable to attain that professional separation from the annoyances. Most likely in this case it is because there will be fall out from the object behavior that will affect me; an example being a new boss with passive-aggressive tendencies who has a hand in shaping my professional environment.
I feel a direct structural impact to the world I inhabit as a result of something that I would normally be sheltered from. I could bridge this gap through additional detachment from the environment, but that puts me in a reactive position to buffer a potentially unreasonable assertion from them and abandons something to which I’m attached. It would be easy if I didn’t care, but I like the environment and team I’ve been constructing and I don’t want it fussed with.
All the same, in this case I think abandonment is in my favor anyway. I wonder what the next environment will be like?
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