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Everyone have patients, however there are some that can take more punishment than others before that person runs out of patients. Patients can also be defined as a temper, if a person loses his/her temper easily that person has a small amount of patients. It is unfortunate that people do get pushed to the point that the person loses his/her temper and reacts due to this. Some people will act-out in violence towards the person(s) that is responsible for that person to lose his/her temper, and others will act-out in a verbal assault. There are very few people that can just walk away from the incident when they have lost his/her temper.
There are some businesses that have no problem with picking on someone that appears to have a great amount of patients. Usually the person that gets picked on is lower than the person that is picking on him/her. Of course there are times that the one that is picking on the person doesn't realize that they are picking on the person, rare but it does happen. With people in the higher part of a business, those people are usually defined as the boss. For many people, you don't tick-off the boss, and there is a lot of crap that you are expected to put up with. There are limitations that a person is expected to put up with, however in many cases the person being picked on will not fight back because it may cost him/her their job.
I can honestly say that I am one of very few that have a great supply of patients, so it is harder to tick me off. It is strength and a weakness at the same time. It is a strength because I can absorb a lot of verbal abuse and not really seem to care about it. It is a weakness because people think that they can just roll over me with anything, so I am seen as an easy person to force to do things. The problem with receiving the verbal attacks and doing nothing, is that when you finally start to fight back it is seen as a petty thing. With me however, when things were brought to my attention, I agreed with the person that brought them to me. Now that person has put something into my lap and I can't fight it, it seems. I have been given almost no choice into dealing with this specific thing. The impression I received from the person is that it is either do it, or lose my job and my vacation pay. I have enough to fight with, however I can't because I can't afford to fight with them, and I can't afford to do what they have told me to do. I am in a corner and I can't fight back without losing more than I am willing to lose. Also I have been told by multiple people that it is perfectly legal what they are doing to me too, so if I put up a fight I have a chance to lose everything and still have to do what I have been told to do.
There is a positive side to what they have done, by putting me into a corner. Being a corner allows me to think of the situation and see if there is a way to get something good out of all what has happened. Whether I can get another employee to be working with me at certain times, so that this situation has a less likely chance to happen again, or things like that. To have things like that come into play is always good because if the "boss" says that it is unnecessary to do such a thing, the government can be involved to protect me and others. More specifically the "Department of Labor" and the "Occupational Health & Safety". Both sets of people, no business likes to fight with about any situation, however if someone does bring either of these groups into the mix, the employee should more than enough to have the problem taken care of and still keep his/her job.
My patients are being run very thin of lately. I have the "boss" telling me that I must do a certain thing that I feel is not right, however I don't have the power to fight it. I have found out that my manager also has a meeting with the "boss" in a few days that the manager doesn't know what it is for, however there is a good chance that it is about me (my situation with the company, etc.). I have a great loss in money coming out of me every month for the next 3 months thanks to my situation. Also I am second-guessing everything that I do because of the amount of crap that I have gone through so far. I have also brought the issue of my security into question due to the fact I do not feel that when dark comes that I am secure any more. Although I am not the only one that feels that when dark comes that the security of the employee with the business still being open, is not there any more. The secure feeling has never been there when dark comes, however it has come up a lot of late. There are things that the business is missing in the security area, however the "boss" has no intentions to change that. The lack of employees at the business when the dark comes is in question right now, and hopefully is resolved (in the good way) soon.
It takes a lot to have me snap back at someone, however I can honestly say that for what I have gone through in the past 2 months, there is a good chance that it is near. It is not good to be able to say that the fight is about to stop being "one-sided" when the other side is going from defense to offense. I just hope that when I am done going from the defense to the offense that I am not penalized highly due to my response to their attacks.
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