Wanting to get one´s own way to the point of obsession and über-agression may be understandable but it is also a kind of bullying. I have had bosses whose micro-management `skills´ were very close to bullying. I left to avoid the aggro and distress - although they all eventually got their comeuppance.
I was wondering last night whether it might be a kind of mental illness. It is certainly a sign of a mind ill at ease with others, but I suppose it is whether that aggression/obsession spills over into non-empathetic behaviour. Though Brown, ex-bosses et al might not see it in quite that way.
Gloriously sunny and, because I have been feeling a little trapped, I popped out to pick up the Michael Jackson DVD. Got back to a letter saying I had defaulted on a credit card payment.
As I hadn´t received the statement - and am usually excellent at paying on time - I got the money refunded. Thanks NatWest.
But that, and a couple of other things, meant I did not even start work till later in the afternoon.
Then I discovered I had an unwelcome backdrop to all the cartoons, meaning I had to re-scan them all. And work out how I had previously done wallet prints and … more tech issues. As at time of typing, all is back to square one, with mountains of work still to do. Make that re-do.
Meanwhile, in our increasingly strange world: the Anglican Church, founded on divorce and sexual wilfulness rather than adherence to spiritual principles, continues in the same vein with marriage for homosexuals in church. What Bible do they actually subscribe to?
And the European Union wants maternity leave to be extended and paid for. So who actually will do the work at all those businesses - especially SMEs? Why should the taxpayer fund maternity leave?
Oh yes, that old chestnut about new lives funding our pensions. What pensions? People are living longer and working longer. Some of us have to work because we have no pensions worth more than a cup of coffee.
This constant sense of entitlement - with `someone else´ picking up the tab, will eventually call time on `human rights´ - even those which genuinely are worth fighting for.
Euphrosene Labon Mind Body Spirit Artist Author Writer
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