I'm not trying to piss you off man!

I had a headache and I was really in no mood for stupidity.  So when Andrew walked in for his appointment eating a muffin and drinking a Pepsi® at 9 this morning I wasn’t really impressed.  I told him that he would have to do something about his food because he was here for work and it wasn’t a break.  To which he replied “well I was just finishing my break and the Foreman told me to come over here!”  “That’s really not my problem now is it?”  I asked.  He decided that he would go wait outside until he was finished his snack.  I started working with another guy and about 2 minutes into what I was doing Andrew wrenched open the door to the truck (which requests very clearly in large turquoise letters ‘Please DO NOT OPEN DOOR’) and walked back in.  At this point I was seething.  “Obviously you can’t read?” I said; “I didn’t see it!...  I’m not trying to piss you off man!”  It was the second half of that statement that made me realize that I was TOTALLY blowing the situation out of perspective and really I was the one with the problem not Andrew he was just a dumb kid who really didn’t know any better.  

After I was finished with Andrew I wrote down I’m not trying to piss you off man! On a piece of paper and left it on my desk.  It really was a good reminder for the rest of the day whenever I was starting to get snarky for no good reason that the problem was mine and not the people I was working with.