At the encouragement of Dar and Dash I watched Fire Me Please last night. While it was fun watching the antics of people doing everything they could to get canned, something that intrigued me even more was the coworkers involved. There were three types that I noticed.
Ignorers: They tried to act like the offensive or annoying person wasn't there. They were the least entertaining to the audience, but they were not shown in a very embarrassing light. I would be this type of person.
Glarers: Actually, there was only one of these. She was a lady who looked about fifty and took her job seriously. When someone else sang "this is boring" throughout the day she gave some wonderful expressions.
Duplicitous: For anyone who watched the show, just about all of the girls at "Blush!" fall in this category. No one was willing to say anything to the new coworker about her habits, but they were more than willing to talk, talk, talk about the person behind her back. When it comes down to it, I think this proves that girls can be more vicious than guys when they want to be.
My favorite duplicitous line was, "She cannot work here--I love your hair!" Do gossips not consider that they might get caught if they go overboard? Now I wonder what all those people who complimented my hair were really thinking.
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Dust, you seem to have an idealized concept of ignorers. I'm not sure that is entirely accurate.
Dictionary.com defines an ignorer as: one that refuses to pay attention to; disregards.
In your post, you specify that the ignorers, "tried to act as if the person wasn't there". This isn't ignoring - rather it is suppressing their reaction. If the coworkers had not noticed the behavior, because they were off smoking or too engrossed in their magazines /card games, then they could be classified as ignorers.
This might also make for a boring show - but it also would have had the upside of getting them fired as well.
.... and if we subdivide the duplicitous into two categories (male and female), we have a quad!!
... nahhhh, even I don't have the heart to get that one started again.
- by the way, since when do 12 year old girls get to run retail stores?
:-)
I certainly don't idealize the ignorers. I actually felt for the glarer the most. The ignorers just look better than the other types when secretly taped. :)
I know they weren't really ignoring from a dictionary standpoint, but they were trying to make it appear that they were ignoring the annoying person.
Also, there are other ways of responding to weird behavior as well, but these are the three I noticed last night.
Maybe a more suitable word would be avoiders. Some of the coworkers would notice the behavior and then walk away or do something else. (Which is in a sense ignoring someone.)
Maybe Dust should not do blogs that list different types of people or reactions. : ) I guess these type of posts do get more comments.
Yet another reality show that I'm not impressed with. Maybe I just don't like the thought of who people really are!? I watched the whole thing, you realize there are only so many ways you can act in one day to get fired, so it's going to be peat and repeat from now on.
That show is funny!!
Dust, you should get out of computers and get into science. You like to quantify and categorize.
I am learning more about you. Do you live a calculated life? Reading from your post it seems like you would sit in a corner observe a situation, calculate the correct behavior for your comfortability level and then react. For example, you would want to be the ignorer/avoider, because they are the least embarassing on TV.
Am I off?
My reaction would be to confront, but sometime I wish I was more calculated. It would keep me from a lot of trouble.
You are right for most scenarios. I do like to assess people and situations then interact (or avoid interaction) based on my assessments.
I was very interested in science in elementary through middle schools. The problem I had in high school was that two of the main topics--Chemistry and Biology--required a lot of memorization of stuff I didn't really care about.
It is hard to get much closer to the scientific method than technical support, though. Most of what I do in my job is assess problems, create hypotheses on how the problems can be fixed, and test the hypotheses.
O Mi Ga ..... I was kidding!!!!
Do I need to smile more to keep it light? :) :) :) :) :) :) :) :)
;-)
wow dust you must rate to get so many comments from dash. Hum, maybe I should start putting my own definitions for words on my blog!?
I think I will create Dust's Dictionary. The motto will come from The Hitchhiker's Guide.
"Dust is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate."
You are definately not a realist! There's no way a realist would use definitions that were not REAL to others! But I'm going to try to stop picking on you now! I haven't had this much fun in a long time---sorry some of it's been at your expense! (REALLY I am!)LOL
Interesting motto from a person who strives to be a realist because of it's connection to truth..."reality is frequently inaccurate." Does that mean that the truth is inaccurate too? As per your defintion?! Wonder if Webster had this much harrasment when creating his dictionary!?
I really will try to stop myself now, before you turn around and pick on me! (I don't take it as well as I dish it!)
O MI GA !!!
Would you look at the size of that butt!
It's true girls can be more vicious than guys. I think I'd be an ignorer and a duplicitous. I wouldn't be able to stop myself saying, "Did you see that?!"
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