Sunday, October 4, 2015

Day 374 – Remaining calm / clear in surprise social / business situations. Part 1

Person X, pulled one of his normal stunts, where he observed me in a business setting with some customers, and then made a snap judgment / assessment of what is going on wherein he thought he knew everything about everyone and judged the situation to be one that he needs to intervene in, in order to save us from ourselves; of which he did, and then this lead to a chain reaction of events that ultimately lead to me customers hating me, from what I can tell.  As unlikely as that sounds, this is actually what happened, in essence. 

Image result for arrogant assPerson X, is by definition, an arrogant asshole who thinks he knows everything and then tries to bestow his self anointed wisdom onto others by shoving it down their throats / intervening, only to have it backfire in a way, this time, that potentially and more than likely will result in a loss of income for me and a negative wrap sheet in the eyes of certain customers / business contacts.

How is this possible?  Well, you see, through person X’s meddling in my business transaction, he, in-effect, derailed the process / track that I was on with the customers that I was working with.  The track that I was on, was to have my current customers taken care of / completed by the time, or shortly after, my next appointment was set.  But, when person X, decided to bestow upon us his “mighty wisdom” – of which he did so by undermining my credibility to my customers by making the statement to them, and I quote: “You are in deep water Josh” - in reference to my presentation that I was in the midst of making – of which, naturally and expectedly so, triggered my customers to want to know why “I am in this so-called deep water” that person X “claimed” that I was in (which I was definitely NOT in), and through their “curiosity” to know what this “deep water” was all about, they changed their focus from me to person X wherein he then basically took over the entire situation and lead them down a completely different path for the next 30 minutes. 

Then my next appointment showed up, ready to go, and my current customers were lost in “lala land” with person X and were definitely, now, no where near being wrapped-up, as I had planned, because person X had them off in a completely different direction.  Now, this different direction was to no avail, because I had already gone down that path 2 weeks ago with these customers and already knew the result of which would be that of non-interest from these customers.  But person X did not bother to ask me this in the first place, of which if he did so, he could have saved everyone a lot of time by just simply butting out. 

Nonetheless, when my next appointment showed up, I now was in a situation wherein I had 2 unresolved customers at the same time of which both need at least 30 minutes of complete attention because my original customers, instead of being close to wrapped up as I had planned, were no where near being wrapped up because person X, in his infinite wisdom (LOL), decided to undermine me with the “deep water” comment in order to wedge his way into my presentation of which just confused the customer more and extended the time that they needed, to have it now interfere with my next appointment.

Then, feeling pressured to make everyone “happy”, I moved my original customer’s purse from the seat that she was sitting in, before person X butt-in, in order make a seat for my next customer who had her arms full of books and papers and was staring at the otherwise empty seat next to my desk.  My original customer saw that I moved her purse and took this to mean that I was kicking her out, of which I was absolutely NOT; and she took this personally and then stormed out of out showroom completely angry at me, and then she went to her builder and told him of my “behavior” and said she wants to also cancel her other order with me that she made last week.  Now, this builder thinks I am some form of an ass and this customer hates me.  Now, for the record, I was in no way kicking my original customer out and was only trying to be accommodating to my new one.  But, with this awkward situation that person X created by pushing his way into my sales presentation thereby derailing my sales flow – this created a situation where I had 2 customers at once who each now need total attention and neither could be wrapped quickly and within this I felt stressed and pressured to make everyone happy and then made a social blunder that lead to a total disaster. Then person X had the gall to blame me.  That fucker. 

Person X has behaved in a similar manner before, many times actually, just never leading to such a disaster as this.  So, therefore, I have accumulated memories and backchats towards person X that have triggered, through this event, emotional reactions, within and as me, such as hatred towards X, blame, anger, frustration, worry, self-pity, fear, and the list goes on in the emotional fuckedness that has come up triggered by this event, directed mainly at person X. 

Yes, it is true, if person X would have just fucked off – meaning: “mind his own business” and stayed out of mine – then this event would NOT have happened.  It was the context of this event that lead to me making a bad social decision about how to make everyone “happy”.  This is not to justify my nervousness, feeling pressured, feeling stressed, etc. – no not at all.  Surely, if I had a cool head, and was clear and breathing, I could have navigated this situation to have a more than likely positive outcome.  BUT, this situation should not have occurred in the first place.  Person X, through his arrogance and superiority / inferiority complex, and his pushy-ness created a chaotic situation of which was unplanned and within that I stumbled.  Person X did this for no reason.  There was no reason that this should have happened.  Person X behaves in this manner quite often and this makes it more difficult for me to get over. 

So, I am going to have to get over this that is why I am writing this here.  I am, over the next writings, going to be releasing myself from many of these points here. 

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