You all know the Chinese Proverb "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime"? Good stuff right? WRONG ! Some people just don't want to know how to fish.
Today, for example at work I was asked to run a report by someone whom I've told how to run said report at least five times and I know other people have told them as well. I politely told that person I would be happy to show them how to run the report at which they looked at me like I was crazy and turned and walked away. ( Breathe, Carol, breathe!) Being the mature individual that I am, after all I am trying to grow old gracefully, I went to my computer and typed specific instructions with nice looking screen prints. Printed it out and took them to the person. As I approached I said" I have this for you" and they jumped up and said "It's the report I need right?" and I calmly said "No, it's the instructions on how to print the report you need, I'm on my way to lunch."
Did I get a thank you for teaching them how to fish? NO! I wanted to take the proverbial fishing pole and shove it where the sun don't shine but the growing old gracefully manual says I can't do that .
I'm thinking tomorrow we'll play baseball and I'll take a Louisville Slugger to work........
Don't worry, I'll swing gracefully ;)
I rarely ever give out fish. I most often like to teach. Sometimes it's out of selfishness - so I don't have to do it. Sometimes it's for their benefit. I feel like you should know how to do it (whatever it is) and then you can choose to pay someone to do it for you if you like. LOL
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