HOW MUCH CAN YOU BARE

To what extent can I tolerate this person; this is a question I ask myself whenever I find myself working with someone who is always getting under my skin. Some people's natural attitudes are intolerable to others and understanding it would make you live well with people. If there's one thing I have learned about working with people it is that to work with a person, you must first learn to accept them instead of tolerating them. As a matter of fact, when it comes to our work, acceptance is a necessity even though tolerance is good. We humans can behave strangely a times with people doing what we least expect especially when it affects our work, sometimes tolerance isn't just enough.

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Where I'm working currently, everyone makes an effort for there to be peaceful coexistence between colleagues. But still, things get heated sometimes as you do not know what might trigger you to react out of line. I've made it clear at my workplace that picking a fight or even quarreling with me is almost impossible because I will apologize at every slight chance of sensing a disagreement. Some time ago, the sales manager of my company had a heated argument with the procurement manager. It happened that the procurement manager was a younger guy who was relative to our MD, and the sales manager was a more mature man.

However working with him is never easy, I discovered a lot of staff try to tolerate his bossy attitude. I share an office with both sales and procurement managers, but we hardly talk. On the day of the misunderstanding, the procurement manager made it known that he had been tolerating the sales manager for so long and was tired of tolerating him. The reason for the argument was that the sales manager asked him to join his boys to carry some goods that had been sold. Truth be told how he spoke was rude, I had to politely decline stating I had some urgent jobs on my table to attend to, but the procurement manager didn't waste time firing back at him for his tone of voice and approach

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When I started working in my company, working with the sales manager on any project was tiring, but from experience having learned in the past, I decided it was who he was and there was nothing I could do about it. Tolerating a person takes a lot of work, you have to adjust to make them happy until you can no longer adjust for them. But accepting them is saying that you overlook whatever they will do in the future so you don't get hurt by them. Tolerance would aid productivity, but acceptance will strengthen it.

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