Changing Perspectives of People

Being a student, houseman, we tend to 'fear' certain MOs, specialist, consultants. When we fear these certain individuals, we avoid them, we paint very negative views of them, and we infect others with that views so that these people will carry a bad name wherever they go.

I think its not fair to them despite them being damn malignant, and moody. Sometimes we get a scolding for no reason, although I would like to think most with reasons. But these people may actually be nice if you talked to them and meet them outside of work. They are humans too, and being human they have their own characteristic that we may not like but however have to bear.

Here's an experience of mine.

A colleague of asked to switch oncalls with me as he had something that day. Thing is, that call was with an MO with a 'negative' reputation. HOs shudder at his name, and try as best as possible to avoid him. I heard of him even before I started my posting. My colleague couldn't find any other replacement as nobody wanted to be oncall with him. I accepted and just vowed to do my best whatever happens. Gotta face it someday anyway.

And guess what? I went through the oncall without any scolding at all. He listened to my presentations and we communicated well (I think). He even thought me how to do an ERPOC, which nobody wanted to do with him. All I had to do was to call him and ask his permission to perform the procedure and he said OK.

He did scold a few other of my colleagues (some quite severely) but somehow I went through well.

That colleague of mine who changed calls with me said a few days earlier that quite stuck to me, "If you do your work well, and did your best, you have nothing to fear and cannot be scolded. Even if you are, take it as a learning process."

Face it, we'll face people like this at anytime in our life. We just have to deal with them and there is no use in judging someone negatively as you will only react negatively which in the process make life more miserable, for you. I don't think the person gives a damn anyway.

It's easy for me to say this, but it's also a lesson for me.

It's not nice when people paint a negative perception of you. Try thinking positive and see things in a different light, and Insyallah things will improve and work will become less stressful.

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