Confusednconfusing - That Intern You Regret Hiring

A terrible habit i've picked up on is complementing advice.

I love advice, and when its good and relevant and in a format I can understand well, I genuinely appreciate and encourage it.

So in response, i'll be like, "that's a good one" or "ooh i wouldn't have thought of that", etc. and idk where the line when it starts to sound more condescending than grateful is???

It doesn't help that i have this tone of voice that i have been told multiple times sounds 'permanently sarcastic', which is a whole other can of worms...

I guess accepting advice this is just one of those skills i have to put conscious effort into improving whenever the opportunity arises, until one day it'll just become part of my good communication repertoire! Excited for that :)

did you know that you shouldn’t yell at your kids if they did something wrong accidentally/ because of things outside their control? Revolutionary

Sunset at 3:50 and it’s raining all day till then 🤗 what kind of sick joke-

writing is 10% storytelling and 90% rearranging three sentences for an hour like you're trying to solve an ancient curse

Gotta incorporate that into my belief system.

Someone at an old job asked why I wanted to write up the meeting minutes for our team and I said 'i wanna control the narrative' and they were like 'what' and I pointed out that no one was gonna remember what we said in six months and so my interpretation of the meeting would dictate the assumed reality of what happened

"none of you ever send corrections when I offer the draft so y'all have consented to my version"

"we don't read that shit"

"you must trust me implicitly to create our shared reality that's so sweet"

That's how several coworkers decided I was a supervillain and how I learned several coworkers didn't understand record keeping as like a CONCEPT

it’s so frustrating that every little action or thing I say could irrevocably alter my relationship with someone.

As someone that doesn’t really react or converse in a ‘conventional’ way, I’m probably often fucking up relationships in ways I’m not even aware of.