Confrontation
Ohmygodohmygodohmygod...
I hate confrontations, but sometimes they are unavoidable... I had a little run-in with Mr. National GenSec today, who I think is a little over-stressed... just trying to tell him to calm down and chill out, and it blew up in my face.
Now I feel bad. I generally try to be as inoffensive as I possibly can (except in jest, ofcourse!). I just get this deep rotten feeling when I know I've offended somebody without meaning to. Dammit, just let me finish my sentence before jumping to conclusions! Sigh... maybe I should just take a nap - I don't think my brain has been working correctly for the past few hours anyhow.
Grr. Need to write a report about the meeting with the DIMIA S.L.A.M. unit this morning - I got a lot of good ideas and felt encouraged to know that even if campuses in Victoria aren't too fussed about NLC, atleast government people feel that we are a useful mediator. If only we could convince the campuses of the same thing! It would make life so much easier. Some issues do re-occur across the campuses, and getting the campuses to share that information with us and each other is like asking them to show us their personal journals. I mean, what the hell is the use of NLC anyhow, if the campuses don't want to utilise our most obvious function??!
Politics is a lonely game, especially when you fight those you work with - that's when you start realising that you don't know who you should call... who to trust? Only those who are involved understand, and those are exactly the same people you don't call about feeling down!
Why do I feel like a muddy doormat right now?
*** Update: Issue resolved. Who says things take a long time to happen in the NLC?***
But I still feel kinda down. I neeeeeed a hug bigtime! :(
Not a fun person to piss off! Hey, doesn't he look better with the beard/goatee?
I hate confrontations, but sometimes they are unavoidable... I had a little run-in with Mr. National GenSec today, who I think is a little over-stressed... just trying to tell him to calm down and chill out, and it blew up in my face.
Now I feel bad. I generally try to be as inoffensive as I possibly can (except in jest, ofcourse!). I just get this deep rotten feeling when I know I've offended somebody without meaning to. Dammit, just let me finish my sentence before jumping to conclusions! Sigh... maybe I should just take a nap - I don't think my brain has been working correctly for the past few hours anyhow.
Grr. Need to write a report about the meeting with the DIMIA S.L.A.M. unit this morning - I got a lot of good ideas and felt encouraged to know that even if campuses in Victoria aren't too fussed about NLC, atleast government people feel that we are a useful mediator. If only we could convince the campuses of the same thing! It would make life so much easier. Some issues do re-occur across the campuses, and getting the campuses to share that information with us and each other is like asking them to show us their personal journals. I mean, what the hell is the use of NLC anyhow, if the campuses don't want to utilise our most obvious function??!
Politics is a lonely game, especially when you fight those you work with - that's when you start realising that you don't know who you should call... who to trust? Only those who are involved understand, and those are exactly the same people you don't call about feeling down!
Why do I feel like a muddy doormat right now?
*** Update: Issue resolved. Who says things take a long time to happen in the NLC?***
But I still feel kinda down. I neeeeeed a hug bigtime! :(
Not a fun person to piss off! Hey, doesn't he look better with the beard/goatee?