Those who are over-eager to please often find themselves working with those who can never be pleased.
As amusing as I find these situations from the sidelines, it is exhausting working with either type.
Because my threshold for nonsense is so low, I drop my involvement in projects as soon as I sense that the project manager from either side is one of these types.
Some may think me too picky or that I think too highly of myself.
Well, I'd rather be those things than waste my time and energy on the wrong audience for my work.
Have You Been In My Classroom? You May Have Been the Subject of an Experiment.
Despite having been an educator for such a long time, I still test out new methods and information whenever I get the opportunity.
Which means that, if you've ever been in my classroom, lecture theatre, webinar, or similar setting, there's a very high probability that I conducted some kind of experiment on you.
Don't worry, you weren't being bombarded with gamma rays or breathing in odourless chemicals I infused into the air.
It was more likely a test to see how you would react to a certain way of delivery, a new activity, or a new way of conducting an established activity.
I approach it the way a stand-up comedian approaches new material that he/she has written - basically, test it until you know whether to keep it or dump it.
And I've dumped a whole lot more material than I've kept.
So, this is to say thank you for allowing me to test them out on you, and for participating (albeit mostly unknowingly - oops!) in my experiments. ;)