And then I realized I was being a Jerk
Posted by Angelo Lakra Fri, 27 Mar 2009 06:33:00 GMT
It’s funny how lack of sleep and stress can change one’s mood so quickly.
The other day I was alerted by my manager that I needed to make some adjustments to a website. Now, I had been working on this site for what seemed like ages and was not surprised that the adjustments seemed to be something that would push the deadline back even further. As I delved into the code, I felt like I was making significant progress in less time than I had anticipated. But then I hit the front page—I was getting frustrated about manipulating a simple DIV tag.
I cried out for help to another programmer as I did not want to deal with the problem and of course, my colleague responded with a simple “Why don’t you just move it outside this other DIV?” in a slight tone that said “Dude, you should know that”. At this point my fuse was about to to burn out and I was going to explode, “It’s just not that simple!”, but I managed to take out the exclamation point as I was saying it. His suggestion worked completely and I moved on.
After finishing this task, I realized I had been a jerk. When playing our daily game of foozeball, I smooth things over by making fun of a wild-haired, hysterical version of myself saying “It’s just not that simple!”. That worked too.
Anyway, I just thought about this little episode as I was updating my personal website. I was reading the copy and was alarmed at how bitter and aloof my copy had been and realized once again that I was coming off as super elitist jerk. Wow, way to go Angelo.
I attribute this to, as of late, my patience getting short due to last month of not getting much sleep because of working on late projects and helping take care of my new son during the night.
Moral: Don’t take out your lack of sleep on others, just go to sleep. You gotta hit your own reset button somehow.
