Attitude Indoctrination, Session 3
We had it today. The crowning turd in the water-pipe being that it was way off-site, so I had to lower myself to asking for a ride.
It was the usual, "If the inconsiderate anal rape that is your life as an employee is upsetting to you, then you owe it to yourself and your employer to find a new and constructive way of looking at it."
It actually wasn't so bad this time, because I ended up at a table of fellow smart-asses. When we broke off into table-groups to talk about things that start our negative thought-circles of worry and anxiety, some of them came up with predictably tame mockeries. Then I gave them mine, to the beautiful sound of uncomfortable laughter.
When the leader was looking for tables to share their stories, I almost volunteered - but that would have ruined it; trying too hard, and all that.
But oh for the opportunity to have said, "Oh, you know: Waking up in an unfamiliar place with torn clothes, blood under my nails, strange hair in my teeth..."
It was the usual, "If the inconsiderate anal rape that is your life as an employee is upsetting to you, then you owe it to yourself and your employer to find a new and constructive way of looking at it."
It actually wasn't so bad this time, because I ended up at a table of fellow smart-asses. When we broke off into table-groups to talk about things that start our negative thought-circles of worry and anxiety, some of them came up with predictably tame mockeries. Then I gave them mine, to the beautiful sound of uncomfortable laughter.
When the leader was looking for tables to share their stories, I almost volunteered - but that would have ruined it; trying too hard, and all that.
But oh for the opportunity to have said, "Oh, you know: Waking up in an unfamiliar place with torn clothes, blood under my nails, strange hair in my teeth..."