The guy who texted him was a dick to start off. He didn’t start of being an ass until the manager started getting uppity about a meeting that doesn’t even matter. I have a weekly stand up on Mondays, and honestly we could do without it.
Well he wasn’t a dick from the beginning, like you said, but he was unprofessional. Yeah dude, I was asleep, I basically never go to those… Could be worded in a different way.
“Unfortunately, a higher priority task was scheduled at the same time as the standup meeting. This is a recurrent daily task that cannot be postponed and therefore I will not be attending any standup meeting. What’s the task? Oh, its a restorative maintenance session for continued service availability assurance. What’s that mean? I’m sleeping, it means I’m sleeping.”
Professionalism meaning anything other than honesty or not going out of your way to be rude is just performative ball fluffing. The absence of casualness is just a way to communicate to your superiors that their whims are soooper seeerius and impooorrrtant, and that they shouldn’t be questioned or challenged in any way that doesn’t give them an easy out that makes them feel like they’re in the driver’s seat.
For most of us, there’s no point in pretending we aren’t all a bunch of oversized chimpanzee children playing make believe. Just because some asshole has money and is playing in a big office upstairs doesn’t mean it isn’t just some bullshit game.
The guy who texted him was a dick to start off. He didn’t start of being an ass until the manager started getting uppity about a meeting that doesn’t even matter. I have a weekly stand up on Mondays, and honestly we could do without it.
Well he wasn’t a dick from the beginning, like you said, but he was unprofessional. Yeah dude, I was asleep, I basically never go to those… Could be worded in a different way.
“Unfortunately, a higher priority task was scheduled at the same time as the standup meeting. This is a recurrent daily task that cannot be postponed and therefore I will not be attending any standup meeting. What’s the task? Oh, its a restorative maintenance session for continued service availability assurance. What’s that mean? I’m sleeping, it means I’m sleeping.”
Ooo that’s the right lingo
Professionalism meaning anything other than honesty or not going out of your way to be rude is just performative ball fluffing. The absence of casualness is just a way to communicate to your superiors that their whims are soooper seeerius and impooorrrtant, and that they shouldn’t be questioned or challenged in any way that doesn’t give them an easy out that makes them feel like they’re in the driver’s seat.
For most of us, there’s no point in pretending we aren’t all a bunch of oversized chimpanzee children playing make believe. Just because some asshole has money and is playing in a big office upstairs doesn’t mean it isn’t just some bullshit game.
No, you can be professional and honest. Not mutually exclusive, or necessarily “ball fluffing”