We got a new person in my department today, and to welcome her, we had some bagels and sat around chatting for a while. One person suggested we go around and have every person provide a word or two to describe each other. What did they come up for me?
Neat. Precise. Consistent. Sporty. Soft-spoken. And, after a bit of a pause, a hidden, wicked sense of humor.
It's interesting, because those are probably not words that I'd use to describe myself. Well, maybe consistent. Consistent and precise probably come from my being an editor--that's my job, and these are coworkers, so that makes sense. Neat is because for some reason, everyone at work is fixated on how tidy my desk is. I admit it. We're actually having a clean-up day in a couple of weeks, and people were scoffing that I needed to clean at all. As my apartment proves, a place can be neat, but not clean. (I desperately need to clean my apartment--vacuum, dust, the works.) I just happen to keep things nicely in piles. That's how I work. Otherwise, everything's confused and I can't concentrate.
But sporty? Really? I guess it's because I like baseball, but that hardly makes me "sporty." That makes me "a sports fan." And really, "a baseball fan." (Though I do like other sports.) I haven't actively played a sport since...volleyball. In the tenth grade.
I think soft-spoken and hidden, wicked sense of humor go together. I am pretty quiet at work. I stay in my cube. I pop out and talk every now and then, but I'm probably not as social as the others in my department. And when you have a more sarcastic sense of humor, you try to watch it at the office--it's hard to know how people react, and annoying people you work with isn't a good idea. It does creep out, though.
It is always interesting to get a glimpse into how other people see you.
Posted by Barb at March 14, 2008 10:39 PM | TrackBack