Admire my restraint!
Feb. 6th, 2009 03:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mousmeThe supervisor I want to use as a pinata just told me to smile.
I did not kill him. I was reasonably civilized in my response. I did not give him a lecture on how he is an ass who is not entitled to a smile or anything else from me.
I also refrained from hitting him when he said: "I was just trying to be polite!" as though I was some kind of shrieking harpy.
I did not tell him that ordering me to smile as though I somehow owe him my goodwill is not polite, but condescending and chauvinistic.
On the whole, I think I did pretty well.
I did not kill him. I was reasonably civilized in my response. I did not give him a lecture on how he is an ass who is not entitled to a smile or anything else from me.
I also refrained from hitting him when he said: "I was just trying to be polite!" as though I was some kind of shrieking harpy.
I did not tell him that ordering me to smile as though I somehow owe him my goodwill is not polite, but condescending and chauvinistic.
On the whole, I think I did pretty well.
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Date: 2009-02-07 03:54 am (UTC)But, yes. It almost always seems to come the most aggravating people around us.
Maybe you should send him a polite email explaining the condescending and chauvinistic aspect of such requests. "I was just trying to be polite," is hardly an acceptable excuse. Ordering someone to govern their facial expressions according to his petty whim is not polite at all.