Perhaps this person is a hoverer. You know, the sort who doesn’t want anything, but lingers around your work area, violating it and therefore you.
Mayhaps you have a now on your hand. This guy or gal wants you… no, EXPECTS you to stop everything you are doing to attend to his or her issue. They want it, and they want it NOW.
Or maybe you are dealing with a chatterbox or one of the hundreds of other annoying co-workers or customers types that test the soul.
These folks, as nice as they may be most of the time, put the irk in work.
You can't werk with them and unfortunately, you can't work without them.
You can tell them to bug off, but that would not be nice and would probably land you an appointment with your HR department.
No one wants that.
American worker, you need somewhere to put that frustration. You can push it down, push it down way down, but I suggest you identify a personal declaration.
Personal declarations can help keep that blood vessel in your right eye from popping when Timmy from accounting has one too many questions.
Mine is “not today Satan, not today.”
I borrowed this powerful declaration from Bianca Del Rio of “RuPaul Drag Race” fame. I am sure she got it somewhere.
It basically means whatever it is you are doing, thinking or saying over there is not going to get in my way of what I am doing, thinking or saying over here … today… Satan.
I am never too far from a “not today Satan, not today.”
I mutter it when someone does someone talk to me while I am on the phone or a similar offense.. The unmitigated gall!
But sometimes I just think it and that’s enough to calm the tiny, invisible Hulk dancing on my forehead down.
I clearly don’t own “not today Satan, not today.” Such a magical thing cannot be owned, so you can use it, too.
That said, there are tons of other things you can use —“ain’t nobody got time for that;” “what…ever;” “Blah, blah and blaheddie blah,” “I see,” “bye Felicia,” “the unmitigated gall,” “the (blank) I will,” “bye bye now,” etc.
Choose wisely.
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