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[Snoopy]

Have you ever blown your top at a boss? In my extinguished career, I have done so four times, with no great prospects for my future but enormous personal satisfaction.

[basiltherat]

yes, if the boss is trying to break any contractual clauses. besides, that it aint worth it. in indonesia, the locals laugh at you wen u blow because their view is that ur hurting (ie suffering phsically) more than the person facing the abuse. they luv it wen u blow so i tried not to give them that satisfaction by walking away and ignoring him/her and carried on as before.

hehehe bulenya marah nich yea hehehe

roughly translated : hey hahaha look at the white bast@rd, hes blowing a gasket hahaha

best to keep ur cool
rgrds
basil

[denise]

I don't really see the point in blowing up at coworkers/supervisors. If they're really that bad, they're probably not going to be changed simply by being yelled at. I agree with one of basil's points--it hurts you more than it hurts them.

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[dmb]

@Snoopy. Why do you say extinguished career? Surely you are not joining Biffinbridge and quiting this, the oldest profession in the world.

[Lynn]

I once went around the corner and bawled my eyes out. The manager never saw.

[shmooj]

been sorely tempted several times but while I have never lost it with my boss, I have lost it with admin and with one particular teacher a long and forgettable time ago.

Not worth it IMVHO

Instead I come home and take it out on my guitar and then have a therapy session with the wife (=chat).

[Gordon]

I blew my top after a teaching practice session in my CELTA course. The trainer had chewed me out for doing something the other trainer had told me to do the week previous. He didn't see me, but after I left the room I punched the wall (it was brick) and cracked one of my knuckles. Man did that hurt.

[struelle]

[foster]

Never have...but in the current situation, with the principal I have, I could see it happening.

[been_there]

Once I was working at a video store and the manager asked if I could work the holidays. I told him "Sure, I'll work Thanksgiving and Christmas, but I want New Years off." because I could give a beep about religious holidays, but New Year is different. He said, "No problem, I'll do New Years."

Well, I did Christmas and Thanksgiving, and on December 30, my manager came to me and said, "Hey, I want to go to this party, your working the late shift tomorrow."

I smiled and said, "Oh, sure."

I came in at the beginning of my shift, my manager was working and he went to grab his coat and I said, "Oh, I quit." and walked out.

Went to San Francisco with an old University buddy and had the *best* freaking New Years of my life.


I've done similar (well, worse really) things to bosses in this field, but don't feel like disclosing them untill the statute of limitations is expired.

[Wolf]

I never blew my top at a boss. I neve blew my top with a student either. That doesn't mean I didn't have difficult times, but it would have to be pretty darned serious before I blew my top.

Blow my top in Indonesia? I have two Indoneisan friends. If their general size is average, then if I blew my top in that country, I don't see how it would be me feeling the physical pain.

Which, in all seriousness, is all the more reason I try not to blow my top.

The only time I ever lost it at work was with a very abusive customer when I was working at a gas station. The guy refused to pay for some trumped up reason, so I called the cops. He paid.

[Roger]

One of the more frustrating aspects of teaching in a foreign country such as China is that you have to bottle up your true feelings. I have given a piece of my opinion on a few occasions, not necessarily to increase the happiness of my superiors, but I have never blown my top.
Perhaps it's a blessing in disguise?