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chris1976 04/20/2013

We're facing layoffs and my team's morale is low. The director's message is that they have "no commitment" to find additional funding. She's not exactly my favorite person, so her official condescending comments about "maybe/maybe not we'll keep you" were extra tasteless to me.

Now she wants to meet with each one of us individually to ask us "how committed we are" and "what is our opinion about our workplace". I cannot think of something more stupid and incompetent than that. Really? She expect us to be honest?

Anyway, something about this whole process is triggering me. The insecurity of my job, the fear of not having one soon, the unknown, even if I foresee something better... Anyway yesterday I was in a terrible mood and snappy at work. I was very angry all day, and it was one of those days when everything that can go wrong does.

I'm glad that yesterday's gone but I still feel snappy. Just venting I guess.

mujicaptsd 05/03/2013

Cool idea, guayaba. And it's good to see you around; it had been a little while.

Type C. Nice to know.

guayaba 05/03/2013

Ha ha ha, it's hard to hear me yakin from underneath that text book. Probably functions like the reverse of those headphones- makes me unhearable by others.

Done til fall though.

The type C stuff could be an "aha" for you too, Mujica. It was validating to read since it frames many of the things they try to train out of us (for the purpose of blending in) as strengths.

chris1976 05/03/2013

Interesting. I do have an issue with classifying people. Not that it's necessarily wrong or bad. A lot of the things you mentioned about the Type C personality speak to me. But placing me in only that department is a disservice. I feel like I am more than that.

I am driven too. Granted, socialization may not be the best thing I do, but I am not a hermit either. In 2012 I went to the company holiday party and I participated. I have been to other social events. I am selective and always me wherever I go, but I still form part of more than just work.

So it's not that I am against relating or identifying with a personality type; it's that people try to place you and judge you in certain way as if I am supposed to be nothing more or nothing less that what the book says about my "type". And some "type A-s" at times have been surprised of how much of a type A I can be in response. Trust me, I have been a major "type A" to some people at times. Only I don't think I should be all the time, or want the things that normally those types want.

Am I making sense?

mujicaptsd 05/03/2013

Yeah, such classifications are useful to me as snapshots in different contexts. But in some settings I'm an A, in other settings a C. Like work, or church, or with a group of friends. I'm bilingual/bicultural, too, and it's not a split personality thing, but in my different cultural settings I may be more one or the other. I work in English on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays and in Spanish on Tuesdays and Thursdays and love them both, but they're different. Yet they complement one another.

So my thoughts on classifying personalities. It's still useful, but the reality of in my experience is fluid, in a good way.

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