Saturday, April 2, 2011

Leadership Will Be the Death of Me?

I've said before how I don't like staring crazy in the eye. I explained the rationale in a previous post and I spent not one but two entries complaining about the uncanny gazes of shifty-looking Disney characters staring at me from that damn billboard across from my parking lot at work.

While I still vehemently avoid peering into the "windows to the soul" of unbalanced vagrants and other crazy people, for some reason I decided to muster up enough courage to stare into the eye of the storm of leadership and face head-on whatever craziness came my way.

Bless my heart, I can be so naive and sanguine at times. Leadership is HELL! It requires dealing with some of craziest mofo's in the world, and after only 3 months of weathering that never-ending storm of mania I'm ready to throw in the towel and quit!

I've had to deal with the gamut of ridiculous situations including: confrontation, unprovoked defensiveness, posturing to conceal ignorance, confrontation, undermining of my authority, words taken out of context and used against me, confrontation, excessive sensitivity, unrealistic demands, confrontation.... It's all I can do to keep from lashing out at the lot of them and yelling (Kurupt-style) "Why can't we just chill and get along? Motherf*cka! The views you choose to use is wrong, motherf*cka! Relax." Yes. They, I, and everyone else need to just take a deep breath and relax. Hakuna matata, que sera sera, and all that jazz.

During times like these I constantly have to remind myself that whatever doesn't kill me will only make me stronger. Unfortunately, I was having this very thought during a recent commute to work when I looked up and noticed yet another Disney billboard ad.

They're kidding, right?

Should I be worried? (No seriously. Should I?)