I think I have walked thru fire on more than one occassion with the guys I work with - -the stories I could tell.. .OI VEY!!! Are we a professional bunch? Not one bit - to the outside world... we just moved to a smaller office, but our last office, was a big open space, and on any given moment -- you could expect to have a nerf ball come flying at your head, or other things - we all had toys that usually got flung at one another-- some of the boys had an afternoon baseball game... with my desk as third base...
My boss, for some medical condition, uses testestone patches - and he's worse than a woman with PMS when he's on a fresh patch - he's got a firey temper and doesnt care who he explodes at... doors get slammed -- people get screamed at... not exactly the most adult environment...
BUT when it comes down to it - I've been on the otherside of the world... in the middle of a database meltdown and a client on a deadline... and i got an engineer out of bed at like 3am... and he spent the next hour or so getting the problem resolved witih me... no complaints... no whining about it... I've had the other engineers stay til quite late in the morning- getting ready for an important demo... the mentality with them - whatever it takes to get the job done...
My colleagues and i have a loyalty to one another - yes we can yell and scream - or rathe rthey can - i'm not a screamer... but when it comes down to it - I know Iam going to get what I need out of them... and that I will have the ability to get the job done.. and that's what I really think professionalism is all about...
Crying because you don't want to do something - just bugs the stuffing out of me... or rather the unwillingness to even try and resorting to tears bugs the stuffing out of me -- ya gotta give something...
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