Never in my life I have seen someone that is so much of an idiot. How hard is it to understand “This is wrong! Don’t do it!” Yet I wasted one and a half hours trying to explain to him why the way he was doing is wrong and why he shouldn’t be doing it. and for that one and a half hours he was just repeatedly trying to talk back with “but… but… but..”.
Screw his “Buts”. I was so frustrated talking to him to a point that I almost shoved the “Buts” into his butt if my friend didn’t message me and told me to join them at Aloha (a pub) ASAP.
Ok if I seem exaggerated and you are thinking that I might be bad in teaching someone to do something as easy as pressing the power button to turn on the PC, let me give you an idea of my ability in teaching things to living beings. Normal living beings, mind you.
My mom was a teacher, before she decided to resign and take care of us 3 sons she was the finest teacher known at where she was teaching, and was promoted to be the vice principle of the school before she resigned. I grew up watching her teach, and I learn from that. I have been teaching on and off since my college days, and after I graduated from my university holding a degree in “Communications” I even taught in a famous primary school in SS2 PJ to have a taste of the life of a teacher. My mother’s teaching methodologies are tested and proven to be one of the most effective and most influential even for me and for all the students that I have taught. I do not regard myself as the best teacher but I am confident enough with the ways of teaching children and my skills in face to face communication when I want to teach a person to what is right or wrong of ONE SIMPLE FUCKING MATTER, there shouldn’t be much problem.
I was wrong. Unfortunately when you are teaching a stone head, everything is a problem.
Friday night after work there was supposed to be a celebration going on for 2 of the colleagues in the same floor, both of them celebrating birthdays in February. I finished work at 4pm and I was staying back to chat with a girl and also to wait for 6pm so that everyone would be there and I can join them. 5:30pm when I was going to leave suddenly this fella in the other half of the team suddenly called out to me, he was checking on something as simple as 1+1=2 and he wanted to get a second opinion. Who the heck on earth gets a SECOND OPINION for 1+1=2? No matter of where you put either of the number “1”s, the answer will still be “2”.
So, being a nice person that I am (screw you all that are disagreeing that) I went ahead and gave him a walk through on what he was asking about. With him give me “but…but…but…” in between my answers, I managed to finish what I had to say without feeling too irritated because I already knew that he can be irritating and I was prepared.
And then he questioned what I just asked. I was starting to think that I was a little under prepared about how irritating he could have been.
So being a nice person that I am (I am starting to agree with the sounds of disagreement to that now) I went ahead and gave him a second walk through on the same subject again, inevitably showing some annoyance in my voice. With him give me “but…but…but…” in between my answers, I started to feel really irritated. At the end of that walk through I couldn’t help but asked him, why does he not know how to do such simple things?
And then something tipped me off further. I asked him to check on some vital information that is a must do before he check on how to handle the cases, he answered “I already checked” in a SO DAMN SURE kinda way. I requested him to check again as I didn’t see him do it, he answered back “I did lar”. So I then firmly DEMANDED him to do it again. He looked annoyed and so did it while mumbling and guess what, he didn’t check. The status of the case was not what he said, I am so fucking sure that he was assuming it and he didn’t check it. I got annoyed.
So I questioned him on why did he not do it.
He answered: “no one taught me how to do this and no one told me that I’m supposed to do this.”
I immediately felt uncontrollably irritated for one very blardy simple reason, I WAS THERE when his seniors taught him about this. I heard the whole thing and I knew it was well taught to him. I thought my violent days have been long gone but I had a surge of rage and almost just gave him a smack in his face. I screamed in my mine at him “WHAT AN IDIOT!”.
(as I was typing this another idiot in the team has sent me messages over the internal messenger trying to start a fight with me. No balls to bring it up in broad day light but trying to start something in the dark. What a wuss).
So being an emo fella I am, I just threw it straight into his face to save time. “I was there when they teach you this, don’t give me this bullshit.” He got stunned and he tried to argue further but I decided to take none of his bullshit any further. So I told him to shut the fuck up and listen to me while I go over the whole process again. He tried to argue but I told him if he doesn’t want to listen it’s fine, I further pointed out a problem that I already pointed out on day 1 when he joined the team, he needs to pay attention to listen to what people tell him. He wasn’t happy but I’m glad he didn’t argue further because I was ready to leave him be.
And so, for the third time, I gave him another walk through, this time I demanded him to start making notes. True enough, I knew one of his reasons of not being able to learn things effectively is not being able to take notes. He seems to think that asking the same question 10000 times is fine as long as he learns it. So I delivered to him, I pointed out all his bad habits in learning especially about not taking notes and even if he does all his notes became trash once the session is done. Not only that he does not refer to them, even if he wanted to he has no idea where and what notes to refer to, or even if he found the notes, he wouldn’t even be able to comprehend what his notes were about anyway. Like I said, the notes are just trash. He wasn’t happy, but I proved to him to get him to show me some notes that he has taken regarding previous topics. Not only that he is unable to find them, on things that he is able to find, he can’t comprehend, and in the end he even claimed that no one taught him about certain subjects.
I was very unhappy on that claim and couldn’t control myself but to deliver whatever he said right back into his face, pointed out again that I was there when he was being taught.
It wasn’t the end of it. He was talking back all the while when I was telling him that he wasn’t doing things right. And then I decided that I had enough. I got a message from friends in Aloha that I am an hour late. So I told him fuck it. I already said whatever shit I had to say, over and over again. It’s up to him to take it or not. And so I left the office.
First time in my life I just dunned 2 bottles of Calsberg in 10 minutes. Shows how stress it was for me to talk to him. One and a half hours. that’s it. no more. Not on the same subjects anyway. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
Signing off.
