Yes, I lost my cool big time yesterday at work yesterday, for the first time in my many years of working life.
Lets not dwell into the details. After a few minutes of cooling down, I gotta agree that I'm at fault too.
I couldn't understand why
(1) people never bother to reply when they have obviously read the email, leaving you to wonder if they have
(a)missed the email.
(b)choose to reply the email at a latter time.
(c)choose to ignore the email.
(2) and why people have to lose temper. it is my belief that whoever loses the temper first start the fight.
I took the initiative to drop him an email later to apologise for raising my voice. Probably prompted by my gesture for a peace treaty, he apologised too. We dropped the childishness and started to be professional - to talk about what we can do to address the problem. And we had a compromised solution - which was his original solution. He has his point, but he failed to see mine.
I have no idea what got over me yesterday. Wifey says its Mr Ego fighting back to save me from humilation. Maybe she's right. The size of my Mr Ego is as big as Kenny Sia's coconuts.
I'm not a target board.
And I'm no wimp.
I have lost.
But I gained far more than I lost.
Patted him on the shoulder the next time I saw him after I dropped the email.
And we are friends again.
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