Someone shared her frustration over sending an e-mail at work about the lack of effective communication. What she got back was e-mails about who's job it was to do what, not addressing the concerns that the employee had. When I suggested that she write "I rest my case" she laughed and said she thought that would be fun, but the problem goes pretty far up the chain, and she would not be viewed in a positive light. She vented and then she left, and as far as I know, the communication is still lacking. The e-mails had the desired effect of silencing her.
As I was heading to class, someone in the learning center was talking on and on about nothing of substance. He loves to hear himself talk. I looked in to see who was staffing the lab. The instructor there had her head buried deep in her work and looked oblivious to the steady stream of verbiage going on. No one told him to stop, he was just made irrelevant, by ignoring him
We struggle to listen. Listening may reveal parts that we don’t want to admit about ourselves. As long as we fill the room with our voice, we don’t have to hear the critique of others. Talking silences the critic.
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