Just today, i started using a patience meter in my Windows Live Messenger status message at the office. It will help others to know how to deal with me like when to talk to me normally or when to crack a joke or when to ask stupid questions etc.
Basically, it all started when this new hire in our team (well i think he’s more than 3 months now) started asking help from me for a specific product. As always, its my job to help especially if it concerns my products. However, after i gave him the help he needed, it didn’t stop there. He continued asking question on how to and why it is’t working and stuffs like that with another product. I really got pissed off since most of his questions are easy and are available in the published documentations we have and its as if i’m already doing his task step by step. I already told him a lot of times to find what he needs in the documents instead of asking right away. And yet, he still keeps on asking and whenever im explaining something, i had to explain it 3 or more times before he gets it. No offense, but i’m trying to be nice to him and be helpful but why can’t he help himself? Its obvious he isn’t that smart and has low comprehension but i just wish he tries to improve himself. I get pissed easily when someone keeps on asking me about something which can be found in our documents. Why can’t he have the initiave to do some searching before bothering others?(and i’ve been telling him a lot of times before already to “check the documents, its there”). It’s okay for me to help, but for easy stuffs that can be found on the table, please help yourself. I’ts not my job to spoonfeed everything.
Now back to my patience meter, after i had it with that guy and told my co-functional lead about his staff, and shouted silently on my own, my patience meter which dropped to 5% finally came up to 25%. Good thing lunchbreak came and so i was able to relax and my patience meter is starting to rise again.
A summary of how i describe my patience meter:
85-90% I’m cool! everything’s normal
75-84% trying to keep it cool…
50% warning! watch your words!
26%-49% i’m definitely not in the mood! only really important stuffs accepted!
below 25% – don’t bother me at all! (except for my higher ups of course.. lol)
