…Client Travails & Arrogance Personified
A friend has just turned client and the prospect is giving me sleepless nights. The warmth of the friendship has been extingushed by his new found ‘professional’ attitude or should I say arrogance. There’s a coldness in his voice that is most likely put-on.
Yesterday, he demanded a favour of me. Send some flowers to a friend, he barked into the phone at a second’s notice. Who does he think I am? His slave?His private Genie? I refuse to put up with such presumptuous behaviour merely to earn brownie points with the boss or business for my company. I am troubled by the turn of events and hope to stand up to my own during any further ‘dealings’.
In a way, this episode has triggered off a new ’attitude’ in my own emotional growth. One cannot be ’soft’ in the cut-throat world of business where the shrewd and the unscrupulous survive.
Pull up your socks!
Develop attitude.
Be assertive.
Say ‘NO’ when your intuition wills it.
And a voice in my head says ‘NO’!
And at this very moment, a client sits in my office, talking at the top of her voice into her cellphone as if she owns the place. I want to pull her hair out because her high-pitched timbre prevents me from thinking straight. But instead I make polite conversation, flash my pearly whites and humour her superciliousness. Stupid bitch!
There’s one small mercy though. She’s just yelled at a colleague who ranks high on my hate list. Now why does this colleague push my buttons? Because she lacks intelligence or talent. Thus to surge ahead she MUST scheme, malign and kiss-up to those in the upper echelons. She is the Greek Goddess Of Unscrupulousness! I am currently perfecting my technique of dealing with this breed of individuals!
