SSTF@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 8 months agoWhat's your juicy work drama that you just want to tell us about?message-squaremessage-square97fedilinkarrow-up1133arrow-down14
arrow-up1129arrow-down1message-squareWhat's your juicy work drama that you just want to tell us about?SSTF@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 8 months agomessage-square97fedilink
minus-squareCall me Lenny/LenilinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·8 months agoThat moment when I’m disqualified from a venting question for going over the meter.
minus-squareintensely_humanlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·8 months agoIt’s actually a pretty serious problem. It’s not so much that you’re disqualified, as that you’re ineffective at being heard. This is a serious problem. Have you considered listening to great speeches, or rap, or poetry?
minus-squareCall me Lenny/LenilinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoNot in particular, no. In what way are you suggesting I’d use that?
minus-squareintensely_humanlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·8 months agoListen to lots and lots of them. Absorb their patterns, to adopt those patterns, to improve your own communication.
minus-squareCall me Lenny/LenilinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoOh, that. I’ve tried that with other things. I’m finding it difficult, perhaps it’s my mind going a different way.
minus-squareCall me Lenny/LenilinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoYou two said it was “beyond work drama” and came across like it was unfitting as a result. Are we only expected to describe events that go below a certain glass ceiling of conflict?
minus-squareCryophilia@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·8 months ago came across like it was unfitting as a result. That was all you. We neither said nor implied any such thing.
minus-squareCall me Lenny/LenilinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoThe first comment you replied to contrasted things that seemed “beyond work drama” with the “juicy work drama” they were looking for.
minus-squareCall me Lenny/LenilinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoAnd that isn’t supposed to send the message some of you think it’s unfitting?
That moment when I’m disqualified from a venting question for going over the meter.
It’s actually a pretty serious problem. It’s not so much that you’re disqualified, as that you’re ineffective at being heard.
This is a serious problem. Have you considered listening to great speeches, or rap, or poetry?
Not in particular, no. In what way are you suggesting I’d use that?
Listen to lots and lots of them. Absorb their patterns, to adopt those patterns, to improve your own communication.
Oh, that. I’ve tried that with other things. I’m finding it difficult, perhaps it’s my mind going a different way.
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You two said it was “beyond work drama” and came across like it was unfitting as a result. Are we only expected to describe events that go below a certain glass ceiling of conflict?
That was all you. We neither said nor implied any such thing.
The first comment you replied to contrasted things that seemed “beyond work drama” with the “juicy work drama” they were looking for.
Correct.
And that isn’t supposed to send the message some of you think it’s unfitting?
Also correct.