What to say?

Excerpt from one email thread.

 

“Friend, RantWoman does not want so many reasons to think you are an idiot!”

 

Thought question: Does RantWoman actually think this Friend is an idiot????

 

Spoiler alert: despite EVERYONE else’s interpretations, NO!  RantWoman sincerely apologizes.

 

This Friend seems to be a very smart techie and one who at least thinks of himself as having better than average people skills. RantWoman cannot evaluate actual workplace performance but DID recently send a business-themed question as one possible path past stuck points. For now, as much of RantWoman’s opinion as can be blogged of without mentioning questions which arose in a workplace context.

 

Cue digressions! Friend does not work for Google, but Google news is sufficient metaphor{:  Carly Fiorina’s experience about being taken seriously or not,  Google Dude’s MANifesto, the latest on Google and Sexual harassment, RantWoman’s meditations on women in tech, middle aged workers and millennials, inclusive workplaces, the podcast Battle tactics for your Sexist Workplace, the Star Trek Next Generation episode where the Alien of the Week can only speak in metaphors, oh, and a musical threesome with Hector Villa Lobos, Astor Piazolo, and Richard Wagner as performed on classical guitar.

 

RantWoman, the NOT idiot? And not the Dostoevsky one!

 

If RantWoman had the SLIGHTEST desire, RantWoman would not have to look very far for reasons to consider this Friend an idiot. But RantWoman tries to add up data in different slices.

 

 

Consider a slightly edited example of a gratitude RantWoman expressed recently in reference to life in Meeting:

 

 It has taken YEARS but one person in a key role has evolved. There was one moment in a meeting where Friend spectacularly missed the point about accessibility. This Friend used to try to fit phone conversations into late evening juggling with dinner with spouse. Then he needed to be texted multiple times in a week to get to one phone call. Then he graduated to evening phone calls on the Saturday night before business meeting. Then there was a months long dance trying to schedule a meeting. The Friend did not either read his email or consult his calendar and the meeting had to be rescheduled. And then other dramas and fiascoes ensued with another person part of the meeting. But FINALLY in recent months, this Friend has actually shown up IN PERSON to TWO meetings. For which as a first step, RantWoman wants to express UNDYING gratitude.

 

Please forgive RantWoman for unrealistic expectations about communications subtlety, poorly calibrated sarcasm filter, underdeveloped suck up reflex, malfunctioning Excessively Plain English to Quakeres translator, and assorted other interpersonal sins. RantWoman is trying to be faithful to her Light as kindly as possible. As kindly as possible? Yes, reality is pretty scary. RantWoman is sorry; for now that is the best she can do.

 

Further Light: RantWoman actually has a sense of this Friend needing HELP, but RantWoman is unclear how to cause that to occur. RantWoman thinks teamwork is on point somehow, but RantWoman is a slow learner about Teamwork. RantWoman keeps expressing the thought that dads are pretty important. Then RantWoman again trips over her own father issues and has NO further Light about how to tend the fathers concern in general.

 

Please hold the whole circus in the Light.

 

In Light and Faithfulness.