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mattadams
06-16-2004, 12:03 PM
Most people know I'm a relatively mild-mannered guy. I can take a lot of crap before loosing my cool. Rarely (although more frequently as of the last few weeks) I do tend to "go off the deep end" however. Like for example a few weeks ago I was pissed off because my next level support guy wasn't doing what he was supposed to so I sent an email to him, his boss, my boss, my bosses boss, and several others in the company basically telling him how upset I was that he couldn't handle the simplest of tasks, and yet he was supposed to be my superior.

Today was one of those days where I said "I have had enough, I'm mad as hell and I'm not going ot take it anymore".

One of the salesman told me (via email) that I basically handled a call wrong, and knowing that I had handled it right, I sent an email back to him, my boss, my bosses boss, the vice president of our division, and the sales rep's boss, basically telling him that I was right and hte problem was not with me but with our software's achilles heel (basically anytime our software encounters a power outage, it crashes and can take days or even weeks to rebuild from, this obviously uspets a lot of customers) and until we got this problem fixed, I'd expect more and more customers to keep leaving us as they were already ebcause we are unable to fix the simplest problems, yada yada yada.

Long story short, I feel much better now :).
It's no wonder my co-workers all say I'm the most likely employee to come in with a gun and start shooting up the place... ROFL (even though I'd never let it get to that point, I'd just quit my job first!)

mattadams
06-16-2004, 04:52 PM
Just sit back... relax... stay calm... the end of the day will come... LOL.

Walking Eagle
06-16-2004, 06:19 PM
I think I know where you are coming from. People like yourself try to work around the problem and just deal with the situation trying not to disturb the bee's nest. But over time, it builds up until you explode letting it all out at once.

Walking Eagle
06-16-2004, 06:23 PM
Oh by the way, I've worked here for 6 years. During that time, I've stormed out of here telling people to f*** off and I quit, 3 or 4 times, because I let it build up. So far I've got a call telling me to come back and lets talk, and I'm still here. I think they know it's my way of cooling off. I know Cory has witnessed my little fits of rage. The rest of the time I'm a teddy bear.

cory
06-16-2004, 08:21 PM
thats right , and with my help he now tells everyone where to go without a care in the world.

mattadams
06-16-2004, 09:34 PM
LOL I hear ya. I find venting every now and then is beneficial it gets people to stop takin advantage of ya, just loose it at work! LOL.

Heath
06-17-2004, 11:39 AM
I'm just waiting to hear about Matt in the news... I'd sure like to see some of these e-mails though... They're probably funny as hell!!!

mattadams
06-17-2004, 12:02 PM
The emails I sent wouldn't make much sense to anyone else, I try to be very professional about it by explaining to them how things actually work, and most of it has do to with our treev software LOL.