Journal 4

Journal 4

I feel belittled when someone does not call me by my name. Of course, I am not bothered if they do not know my name. This is what name tags are for, right? Every professional who works with people should wear a name badge. It is a formal, clean cut way of telling others who you are. When someone says “hey” or “library lady”, I don’t let it bother me but I would never do that to someone I don’t know. I wasn’t taught that way. I would say, “Excuse me” or “miss/sir”. I can’t say that I am bothered by lacking eye contact because I am one who fails to make eye contact, not because I am shy but I am just not good at it.

I do, however, get very irritated by people that always complain, especially parents. Complaining is very common in my work place. Luckily, most of the complaining comes from the “needy” parents and not the staff that I work with. I think we are pretty much conditioned to all the griping and complaining. Some people are never satisfied. We just have to work around these people