I've been reading these newsletters since 2022 now and its like a game to me linking what happened around myself during the week of a full moon to the description of trends written here.
(I find that this game is easier to do than on a new moon)
My Prosecutor at the office relocated the direct supervisor of mine to another office, due to their divergence in the way of judging criminal matters. They always had conflicts, but apparently it reached a culminating point this week.
Then my new supervisor went there yesterday for the first time, we shook hands and I proceeded to ask 2 simple things:
"1. can we keep the curtain open? I prefer working with sunlight", to which he said no.
And then I asked 2. "I need a new chair - this one have a too small support for my back, it pains me" to which he responded:
"you ask for a lot of stuff, huh? are you really just an intern?"
- here in Brazil we have a work culture of mocking interns and blaming everything on them, which is presumed to be passed down to the generations. -
To which I calmly replied "yeah, sadly, but I'm also a future lawyer, it has to be this way lest things wont work out for me"
And I confess that for a first impression... all of this was pretty inadequate.
He was confused by the audacity, I guess? And I was confused by being denied a simple thing and by being doubted about another.
I am not troublesome at the workplace, really, but the shock was felt and I were the cause. Or it seemed like it.
Further that day I read some piece of news that an old professor at a very traditional school here in the city was being compulsorily retired.
He is a 74yo, worked there for +30years, teaching only to the senior years classes, and he wasn't consulted on this arbitrary decision.
He then decided to release a letter to the press and to the school principals which basically stated what a mess that school is becoming, with teens all around the place doing whatever they wanted, joining classes whenever and leaving the classroom whenever as well, with no sense of respect for the elders...
Man, I could sense in the letter he had no clue as to why the school didn't kept by his side when he tried to discipline those teens. And that he was feeling wronged.
Even if I'm not very fond of traditional schooling and its hazards on freedom of will, I felt his pain. He loved to teach, but he didn't know how to communicate with the youngs anymore.
They were critical of him, mocking his religious talks at a portuguese language class, and being very mean with him in general.
So yeah, this was my week. Spot on with the trend here, but feeling like I'm leaving with more questions than answers.
I hope to make up with my new supervisor for any bad impressions, and to keep the workplace as peaceful and light-hearted as possible, even without my sunlight pouring through the curtains.
Whats the solution for dissatisfaction?
I've been reading these newsletters since 2022 now and its like a game to me linking what happened around myself during the week of a full moon to the description of trends written here.
(I find that this game is easier to do than on a new moon)
My Prosecutor at the office relocated the direct supervisor of mine to another office, due to their divergence in the way of judging criminal matters. They always had conflicts, but apparently it reached a culminating point this week.
Then my new supervisor went there yesterday for the first time, we shook hands and I proceeded to ask 2 simple things:
"1. can we keep the curtain open? I prefer working with sunlight", to which he said no.
And then I asked 2. "I need a new chair - this one have a too small support for my back, it pains me" to which he responded:
"you ask for a lot of stuff, huh? are you really just an intern?"
- here in Brazil we have a work culture of mocking interns and blaming everything on them, which is presumed to be passed down to the generations. -
To which I calmly replied "yeah, sadly, but I'm also a future lawyer, it has to be this way lest things wont work out for me"
And I confess that for a first impression... all of this was pretty inadequate.
He was confused by the audacity, I guess? And I was confused by being denied a simple thing and by being doubted about another.
I am not troublesome at the workplace, really, but the shock was felt and I were the cause. Or it seemed like it.
Further that day I read some piece of news that an old professor at a very traditional school here in the city was being compulsorily retired.
He is a 74yo, worked there for +30years, teaching only to the senior years classes, and he wasn't consulted on this arbitrary decision.
He then decided to release a letter to the press and to the school principals which basically stated what a mess that school is becoming, with teens all around the place doing whatever they wanted, joining classes whenever and leaving the classroom whenever as well, with no sense of respect for the elders...
Man, I could sense in the letter he had no clue as to why the school didn't kept by his side when he tried to discipline those teens. And that he was feeling wronged.
Even if I'm not very fond of traditional schooling and its hazards on freedom of will, I felt his pain. He loved to teach, but he didn't know how to communicate with the youngs anymore.
They were critical of him, mocking his religious talks at a portuguese language class, and being very mean with him in general.
So yeah, this was my week. Spot on with the trend here, but feeling like I'm leaving with more questions than answers.
I hope to make up with my new supervisor for any bad impressions, and to keep the workplace as peaceful and light-hearted as possible, even without my sunlight pouring through the curtains.
Thanks for the letter Paul!