Brad Watts
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard Nov 2024
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But listen, whether you bring this up with your company or not, I absolutely think you should continue improving communication on your part because ultimately that's all you can truly control. And even if your company were great at communicating, you'd still need to be great at it yourself. I promise you, there is no workplace out there that is perfect in the communication department.
There's always going to be gaps. There's always going to be quirks. There's always going to be difficult people who create dysfunction that require good communication to address. And you've already done such great work in this department. You're starting to see great results. You can only make things better by learning to speak up more and push for the things that you need. So my take?
Treat this challenging company as a gym for your communication skills. Keep building those muscles. Look for the places where you need to seek out work or information. Whether that's fair or unfair, just put that aside. Think of it as an opportunity, maybe even a gift. I promise you cannot go wrong if you think of things that way.
and it'll also help with the resentment and pettiness that you feel. Right now, it sounds like it feels like this poor communication thing is happening to you, making your job worse, but if you shift your mindset a little, you can think of it as happening for you and forcing you to navigate your job in a new way. I'd be curious to know what changes if you do that.
If you find more progress, you'll feel empowered, you'll feel energized, you might even feel happy to stay. If you don't, you'll know that you did everything you could. You can take these new communication skills into your job search, your relationship building, whatever job you land next when the time is right.
Yeah, like if you guys aren't going to care about me enough to check on me and give me work, I'm not even going to try. Exactly. It actually, this is funny, it reminds me of this woman that I went to law school with. We all started working at these big law firms, right?
There's behemoth companies, hundreds or even thousands of people, and they weren't giving her the kind of work that she wanted to get. So she just sat around reading Agatha Christie novels all day for months. I'm talking about the better part of a year. Wow. I remember talking with her over drinks and it was like, wait, so you've been reading murder mystery novels for like eight months.
And she's like, I don't care. And how are you still working there? And the answer is nobody's, they're paying so little attention that when she's like, I can't do this right now because it's the wrong kind of work. They're just like, oh, okay. We assume you're busy billing hours and they're just not checking. Incredible.
I could see that, although given how attuned these bosses seem to be to their employees, I'm not sure they're going to get that memo.
Wow, yeah, I can totally see that. The things that annoy us, the things that hurt us, they almost always reveal parts of ourselves that we need to work on, right? Because this workplace, it is obviously dysfunctional. She is being poorly managed. She is being neglected. But one employee could experience that and go, huh, annoying. Guess I'm gonna have to walk into so-and-so's office and say,
Hey, what should I be doing? Give me work, give me feedback, tell me where I'm supposed to be. Or, wow, nobody's giving me work. I guess I better figure this out on my own, make some calls, create my own projects. And another employee might go, wow, no one's on top of me. I guess I'm going to sit here and do nothing and feel ignored and anxious or read Agatha Christie novels all day.
And the difference between those responses probably points to some really important work that you can do. My final thought for you is, while you work on this communication stuff, I would definitely be reaching out to people in your field. I would absolutely be seeking out the experience you need to be a desirable candidate. Because like I said, all of this is so much worse because you feel stuck.
The economy is the economy. The job market is the job market. You can't change that stuff. But you can build your relationships with people. You can look for the projects or the trainings or the certs that are going to build your resume.
And I wonder if settling for this job you don't love or feeling like you're just kind of stuck, if that might be another form of that protest that Gabe was talking about, something to consider. And if you decide to leave, it might take some time to land another job, and that is okay. But that doesn't mean you can't start working towards that now.
Working toward it now is how you are going to land that job. And if your communication and anxiety stuff is holding you back from doing that foundational work, that is one more great reason to lean into it. I love your curiosity. I love your willingness to be helped. You're doing great. Keep going. We're rooting for you and you got this. All right, now time for the recommendation of the week.
You're a few months behind? I'm five years behind on Netflix. Squid Game? What's that? I don't even know. I haven't seen a single episode.
It's gross. Yeah. Episode 545 might be an interesting companion to this docuseries. Also, folks, if you don't know, there's a subreddit for our show. If you want to jump into discussions with other listeners about specific episodes, that's over there on Reddit. Just search for Jordan Harbinger and you'll see my profile. But, you know, skip to the subreddit and interact with us there. All right.
Next up.
Yeah.
This is such a sad story. Really tough stuff. I'm sorry that your parents are treating each other in this way. I'm sorry they're relating to you in this way. Creating what sounds like a tense home for you and your siblings. It's really sad that parents do this. And I'm sure there are bright spots too. But I get why it's been hard for you. And I get why it's bringing up these big questions.
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