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Personnel issues.

Aside from the gazillion-and-twelve [real] things that we had to cope with today, mostly I spent my hours talking waffle about a rogue employee.

I wish that we'd just bite the bullet and admit that they, these rogues, won't change—whatever processes we apply, whatever courses we send them on, no matter how heinous the pistol whipping that we give them. They won't change.

[The next bit of this is tricky—I'm complaining about someone who I'm trying to blame blaming me, let's see how I do...]

It's always something that we should have said/done that's caused their problem.

That's what people do when you pull them up about their under-performance. They don't actually say, "I don't feel like a stakeholder", or "I think that you are underfilling the three criteria of leadership", or "I think I should have been included in the team that stated our mission statement". But they do, more-or-less.

Everyone can claim ignorence about any policy because there are thousands of the things, and even the writers [of said shite] can't explain what these policies mean two minutes after having provided them.

Still, I'm an evil nazi who grinds his fellow workers faces into the dirt.

Not quite. I spoke to the person concerned and all the right sentiments were expressed on both sides. I went away reasonably happy and thinking forward. I thought that I saw an immediate change.

Tonight as I became drunker I began to see that he'd done the same thing to me as my bosses do to me; talked the way that I like to hear. He'd pushed my buttons

We've been here before, in his mind a couple of months of effort will be worth a year or two.

I think he isn't playing the same game as I am. He's working from me from the back. My anger is all focused upon me for letting this happen.