Mantras to help you work with people you don't like...

[Canyoucheckonme]

Do you use any? I'm having big issues with colleagues who are stupid or untrustworthy/vindictive or both, and could do with some handy mantras to help me over the next few months. Hoping for a new job in the spring.

So far, I have:

1. I don't have to understand you, I just have to tolerate you.
2. Nod and smile. Breathe. Repeat.
3. Think of the end users.
4. This is not forever

Anyone else stuck in a job with twats and use phrases to get them through the day?

I always start humming the bit of that Justin Timberlake song 'Love yourself'.

'''Cause if you like the way you look that much
Oh, baby, you should go and love yourself
And if you think that I'm still holdin' on to somethin'
You should go and love yourself

So everyone just thinks I'm a happy camper at work, but I'm really saying 'go fuck yourself' whenever someone has pissed me off 😉😁

I always use 'this is not forever ' and ' I'm not in prison if it becomes too bad I'll leave '

I've left the job now, but I swung between

Fuckofffuckofffuckoff

And

Rearrange your face, the disgust is showing.

If you smile you can say c**t without moving your lips, so I would spend a lot of my day walking around with a huge smile on my face. Thank goodness I left that job.

"I only have to work with this person. Some poor sod has to live with them!"

I sing the Betwitched song C'est la vie.

I'm loving these!

Oh gawd, the "rearrange your face the disgust is showing" is definitely a life-long project. I just have "one of those faces. 😬

I love my job, but can't bear a few of the office staff. Been there years but can't trust a few of them and it's getting me down.

Humming a happy song with a secret meaning may help me though!

don't fight with the pigs, you both get dirty but the pigs enjoy it

".. and this too shall pass"
Hum.. you can take this job and shove it...
Remind myself that if i walk now, ill be in a job before they even advertise for a replacement.
you cant bully someone whos not afraid of you... see above.
power dress every day and when someone askes why .. I have and interview after work, or Hint at one.

@CitizenofMoronia ah yes, the classic Mumsnet phrase that not only applies to parenting - thank you!

My mum used to say things like "don't let the bastards get you down - go in, head high, smile lots, and kill them with kindness". So will be doing some of that this week.

Search YouTube for 'Half Baked: Scarface quits his job'
I just play that scene on repeat in my head during trying times.

"I only have to work with this person. Some poor sod has to live with them!"

Alternative version. 'You poor thing. I only have to work with you. You have to live with being you for the rest of your life.'

An ex colleague used to visualise new shoes. Whenever someone was grumpy or rude, she imagined they were suffering with sore feet all day. I.e. it's not about you it's about the feet.

Haha @refreshingseahorse !@refreshingseahorse ! Just watched it. Stuff of dreams, that.

It's so hard not take things personally at times, isn't it? Dreading going in tomorrow. Hey ho, it's not forever.

Read the book "surrounded by idiot" it really helps

@Whitegrenache just ordered it on Amazon Prime - arrives tomorrow. Thank you!

Is it worth looking for a new role?

I have to tell myself about 10 times per day "I can't control them, I can only control my reaction to them". I also mutter cunt/bitch/twat about 20 time a day whenever I'm in their vicinity or get an email from them.

You’re all better people than me. I imagine hitting them with the keyboard a la fight club then imagine sitting in a police station going over and over it, which would be like a work meeting but not getting paid.

@Doormatnomore

i love that image ! Now where's my damn keyboard 😂😉

I hum gently, but sing ‘shut the fuck up’ in my head.

She’s so bloody loud!!

Fabulous 😀

Channel Michelle Obama ‘when they go low we go high’.

“There’s no wine in prison” 🍷

Now that I mostly wfh, I shout, "fuck off!" at my laptop on a regular basis!!!