Problem-Solving
Jan. 8th, 2010 02:58 amI hate it when people are so out of touch with what they want that they can't solve problems which are clearly upsetting them.
You ever talk to one of those people who presents all of these problems, but absolutely rejects all solutions to them? I can't stand it. So many people complain about shit that isn't actually their real problem, and because of it you get situations where Person A complains about something, and Person B thinks of a solution. Person A says, "Well, that wasn't actually what was wrong," and then Person B tries to dig deeper to find the real problem. Person A presents something new which--when solved--is not actually the real problem, either.
This isn't problem-solving. This is turtles standing on turtles standing on turtles standing on turtles that were all stacked up by somebody who is constitutionally incapable of being happy and keeps shifting the goalposts of any problem-solving session to ensure that it fails so that they can continue being cranky and dissatisfied.
I find this so fucking exhausting; you have no idea. Well, maybe you do. If you do, I'm sorry.
It's kind of been my lot to be the one who does all the digging until either the person who hates solutions is too tired to make excuses anymore and finally fucking gives in, or I get too exhausted by dealing with people who are not self-aware enough to ask for what they need and just fucking abandon them to their knotted-up self-imposed nightmare of deliberately-unsolvable unhappiness.
You ever talk to one of those people who presents all of these problems, but absolutely rejects all solutions to them? I can't stand it. So many people complain about shit that isn't actually their real problem, and because of it you get situations where Person A complains about something, and Person B thinks of a solution. Person A says, "Well, that wasn't actually what was wrong," and then Person B tries to dig deeper to find the real problem. Person A presents something new which--when solved--is not actually the real problem, either.
This isn't problem-solving. This is turtles standing on turtles standing on turtles standing on turtles that were all stacked up by somebody who is constitutionally incapable of being happy and keeps shifting the goalposts of any problem-solving session to ensure that it fails so that they can continue being cranky and dissatisfied.
I find this so fucking exhausting; you have no idea. Well, maybe you do. If you do, I'm sorry.
It's kind of been my lot to be the one who does all the digging until either the person who hates solutions is too tired to make excuses anymore and finally fucking gives in, or I get too exhausted by dealing with people who are not self-aware enough to ask for what they need and just fucking abandon them to their knotted-up self-imposed nightmare of deliberately-unsolvable unhappiness.