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I mean, I sort of already knew, but it's like being officially told that Santa Claus doesn't exist as opposed to just suspecting that to be the case. And it's dumb because as much as I hate mom's ageism, I do have higher expectations for people older than me. I mean, they're adults.
Granted, there is a culture/language barrier in this instance since co-worker #1 was born and raised in China, but still- he's been working at Princeton for 10 years. Co-worker #2 has been working there for at least 5, whereas I've been there less than a year. So why hasn't all this shit with the radio and cleaning the job-backers come up before now?
Because these two people, like, refuse to talk to each other. They both talk to me, no problem, but they've been working together for five years. I mean, seriously, even I can talk to a person after I've known them for five fracking years. These are problems that could be solved by just, you know, actually telling the other person there's a problem. They're both perfectly nice to me, why can't they be nice to each other? Because I am not the mediator here. It is not in my job description to resolve your squabbles. Complaining to me accomplishes jackshit nothing because I'm not the one doing the whateveritis that bothers you so damn much! I am the newbie-the lowest person on the toem pole. Like Nog, I am only in charge if everybody else dies, and then they'd hire new people and I still wouldn't be in charge. If it's really that big a deal, why not talk to someone with actual authority? Or, again, you could talk to the person who's bothering you, rather than just subtly hinting at it and insisting they know it's a problem, because obviously they don't know and if it hasn't worked for the past five years, it's not going to randomly start working now.
GAH!
Granted, there is a culture/language barrier in this instance since co-worker #1 was born and raised in China, but still- he's been working at Princeton for 10 years. Co-worker #2 has been working there for at least 5, whereas I've been there less than a year. So why hasn't all this shit with the radio and cleaning the job-backers come up before now?
Because these two people, like, refuse to talk to each other. They both talk to me, no problem, but they've been working together for five years. I mean, seriously, even I can talk to a person after I've known them for five fracking years. These are problems that could be solved by just, you know, actually telling the other person there's a problem. They're both perfectly nice to me, why can't they be nice to each other? Because I am not the mediator here. It is not in my job description to resolve your squabbles. Complaining to me accomplishes jackshit nothing because I'm not the one doing the whateveritis that bothers you so damn much! I am the newbie-the lowest person on the toem pole. Like Nog, I am only in charge if everybody else dies, and then they'd hire new people and I still wouldn't be in charge. If it's really that big a deal, why not talk to someone with actual authority? Or, again, you could talk to the person who's bothering you, rather than just subtly hinting at it and insisting they know it's a problem, because obviously they don't know and if it hasn't worked for the past five years, it's not going to randomly start working now.
GAH!
