{"id":38952,"date":"2014-04-24T23:18:19","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T03:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=38952"},"modified":"2020-07-11T23:18:29","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T03:18:29","slug":"does-the-thought-of-communicating-with-me-intimidate-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=38952","title":{"rendered":"Does the thought of communicating with me intimidate you?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Silly question, I know, but not without reason.<\/span><\/p>\n

After getting \u201cthis isn\u2019t a reprimand but kind of is a reprimand\u201d about how I correspond with people within my company (for the second time), I\u2019ve accepted the reality that people in my office are scared to communicate with me. As irresponsibly cowardice as it may seem, it appears to be in my best interests to let other people do the speaking for me, as my words coming from someone else, appear to be vastly less inflammatory to the fragile people I work with.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have to remind myself that I\u2019m not in an agency environment, where people have told me to my face that something I\u2019ve done is not acceptable in spite of the amount of legitimate work I\u2019ve put into it, or that I\u2019m not in an actual creative studio, where everyone is perpetually in competition with one another regardless of how much they may deny it, so everyone develops somewhat of a shield and an edginess to their tones. Despite the fact that I just turned 32, I\u2019m still leaps and bounds the youngest person in the office, which is to say that everyone else is much older, not just in age, but in work experience.<\/span><\/p>\n

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That being said, stating true facts in a robotic voice is clearly coming off as condescending and in an inflammatory tone. Either that, or people in my office have a preconceived notion that I\u2019m a very mean and awful person. This is what I wrote:<\/span><\/p>\n

To be perfectly honest, not a single one of the images provided (in an external folder<\/em>) matches a single image in the Publisher file. Publisher also does not include file name information, so there\u2019s no definitive way to identify whether or not it\u2019s using any of the images that were provided. Furthermore, the images that were provided are all inconsistently cropped, many are distorted (squashed), and are low-quality to begin with. When it comes to screen captures, there\u2019s little we can do on our end to make them better, they have to be captured while they\u2019re looking their best before they\u2019re sent to us.<\/span><\/p>\n

So if it\u2019s feasible, I\u2019m going to need every single screen cap, recaptured, and given to us without all the green and red circles and arrows already on them. Otherwise, if we have no choice but to use the images that are embedded in the Publisher file, keep in mind that Publisher compresses them harshly, which does compromise the quality and will reflect on whatever we make on our end.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

These are all true facts, and the person I had my \u201cdiscussion\u201d with unequivocally agreed with my message. Regardless, they were told (behind my back, naturally) that it rubbed them the wrong way. This is not the first time that someone has opinionated this, so I\u2019m left to conclude that the people I work with do not like being stated true facts, and doing so is a form of verbally intimidating them.<\/span><\/p>\n

I know, I\u2019m sounding a little indignant here, but I\u2019m not entirely sure that I\u2019m being condescending, or if they\u2019re interpreting such based on preconceived notions about me that they might have. I do not speak to a lot of people in the office, mostly speaking when spoken to, but I don\u2019t wish anyone here ill will. If you\u2019re nice to me, I\u2019ll be nice to you, and we can all exist harmoniously.<\/span><\/p>\n

The bottom line is that after being spoken to about my supposed \u201ctone\u201d again, I feel that I might either come off as slightly intimidating, or maybe I just work with some really, really thin-skinned, overly-sensitive people. Perhaps it might be a combination of both.<\/span><\/p>\n

But regardless, I\u2019m curious to know if I actually do intimidate anyone?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Silly question, I know, but not without reason. After getting \u201cthis isn\u2019t a reprimand but kind of is a reprimand\u201d about how I correspond with people within my company (for the second time), I\u2019ve accepted the reality that people in my office are scared to communicate with me. As irresponsibly cowardice as it may seem, … Continue reading Does the thought of communicating with me intimidate you?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[72,37,15,52],"class_list":["post-38952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-government","tag-job","tag-og","tag-owned"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38953,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38952\/revisions\/38953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}