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My boss and I share a trait of being heavily bad tempered. Almost into a point of getting loud at a verbal argument against one piece of code.
Recently I lost my temper and smashed my personal laptop after a few coding mistakes and frustration buildup on the coding source engine I was doing for fun.
So here's my question...
Is it just me? Or are there really just a lot of developers with bad tempers?
Edit: I think it really boils down to how I'm being handled on my projects and work. if the clients have a decent attitude towards me then I'm acceptable to them, otherwise if not, then I grit my teeth and work with it. I think my temper is ill only once there's been a lot of stress. If all is well and well-maintained then I'm happy as can be.
I really love my job, but sometimes it's hard to accept that these guys are willing to break rules just to get on my nerves.
Opinions on this?
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Did you apply your sig to the lappie?
And don't you wish you'd won the lappie sleeve? 
I'm pretty placid, it takes a lot to get me annoyed - but then The Red Mist descends, and I tend to be rather... Um... Overzealous...
Doesn't happen often - not that I can remember in the lasts fifteen years at least.
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Btw i didn't see any threads about the winner. Can you provide with one, or its a secret who won ?
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Ahem[^]
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Now that was timing. And our comments add to each other really nice 
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Your sig is kind of weird today !
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I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
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I laughed out loud, literally. Now, I am the weird in the office.
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You are welcome 
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NO I DO NOT HAVE A FRIGGIN' BAD TEMPER! I JUST KNOW EVERYTHING BETTER AND GET A BIT CROSS WHEN STUPID PEOPLE CONTRADICT ME!!! 
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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It's only you, and my boss, and the guy in next room...it's only you!
I'm not questioning your powers of observation; I'm merely remarking upon the paradox of asking a masked man who he is. (V)
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote:
It's only you, and my boss, and the guy in next room...it's only you! |
Do you mean to say that Member 9063556, your boss AND the guy in the next room are all one and the same person 
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
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yeah if you're smashing a laptop coz you buggered up some code then you probably need to back off a little 
Bryce
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I think it's mainly a patience worn out. Surprisingly these short bursts of aggression and anger don't last long.
Before I came in, my boss' laptop was being completely slow. he smashed the hard drive in such a state that the hard drive needed replacing. Eventually, when I became part of the project team, he handed the laptop down to me in a slightly better state. I've been taking good care of it, but I think my patience is much better on a professional line.
Personally, I can get mad very quick due to a short attention span (and I have Attention Deficit Disorder, which makes things worse) and my patience wears thin. I can keep it in to a certain point, but it always has to get out somehow.
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Member 9063556 wrote: Surprisingly Thankfully these short bursts of aggression and anger don't last long.
FTFY
Member 9063556 wrote: I can get mad very quick due to a short attention span
You are in the wrong profession if you have a short attention span. 
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JimmyRopes wrote:
You are in the wrong profession if you have a short attention span.
Don't get me wrong. I love my job as a database dev. It's one of the jobs in which I can actually focus in.
Patience wades thin often when you have to deal with stupid or arrogant clients, and you just have to breathe deep and take it all in.
I only let loose on a personal level though.
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Member 9063556 wrote: Patience wades thin often when you have to deal with stupid or arrogant clients,
May I remind you of an often quoted retailing quip "the customer is always right".
Unfortunately stupid or arrogant clients come part and parcel with this job. If you can't deal with them tell your manager and try to stay out of the way.
If your technical skills are above average they will put a buffer in the way so you don't have to deal with clients directly.
P.S. - breaking a laptop because your code won't compile is a sign that you are under more pressure than you can handle in a healthy manner. You may want to find a less stressful line of work.
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JimmyRopes wrote: May I remind you of an often quoted retailing quip "the customer is always right".
Hence the cursing stays internal. Always a useful quip.
I still think I'm not alone in the outrageous bits, even though I try keeping my calm.
Perhaps some of this advice can come in handy. I'm not quitting my job though until I've done what I need to and got a better and less stressful line of work.
I think it's also the environment of where and how I work, oft times my frustration builds while I'm working at home, but at work it's more levelled. I noticed that going to Head Office it was very chilled, so perhaps moving there would help?
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Member 9063556 wrote: noticed that going to Head Office it was very chilled, so perhaps moving there would help?
Definitely worth a shot.
When working at home, on personal projects, we put our own pressure on ourselves. It was a hard thing to learn that I wasn't the best and the brightest, but I survived the blow to my ego. After that realization I was able to approach my work with the knowledge that, yes, I will screw up from time to time, but so what.
When you feel like you are not getting anywhere put it down and do something completely unrelated.
A friend, who happened to be a sociologist, once told me that since we cannot solve the entire problem in a single day we should do something that will give us closure, like cooking our dinner, or some such task that we can complete; water the flowers, mow the lawn, etc. We can look at the completed task and feel like we accomplished something today.
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bryce wrote: yeah if you're smashing a laptop coz you buggered up some code then you probably need to back off a little
I once smashed a joystick as a kid, but those days are long gone. I'd be worried about any adult destroying a laptop out of frustration. Put in another context, this might as well be a case of road rage just waiting to happen.
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I have a card I keep in my office.
On it is a picture of an Emu, staring out of the frame.
Inside are written the words "Calm, calm, calm"
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Did you have an interesting childhood experience with an Emu ? I just spent an hour looking at pictures of them, and I still want to kill someone.
“Use the word 'cybernetics,' Norbert, because nobody knows what it means. This will always put you at an advantage in arguments.” Claude Shannon (Information Theory scientist): letter to Norbert Weiner of M.I.T., circa 1940
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I can't get my hands on the actual pic right now - but this[^] is by the same artist.
Go on - still feeling angry ?
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BillWoodruff wrote: Did you have an interesting childhood experience with an Emu ? I just spent an hour looking at pictures of them, and I still want to kill someone.
Try ![Sheep | [baah]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/sheep.gif) instead.
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