In which I’m in a Very. Bad. Mood.

We were all told to be at work at 8 AM this morning for some kind of special training meeting with MMPI-like aspects. (Like I need to take another fucking MMPI.) Since I normally don’t start work until 11 AM, 8 AM feels like 5 AM to me. It hurts.

I clocked in this morning at 7:56. I’m scheduled to work until 8 PM. That’s twelve hours, people.

Now management tells us the training doesn’t actually start until 9, and they got us in early just to make sure we were all here before the meeting.

I want to KILL SOMETHING! Or go back to bed. Or something.

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Update: It was a profiling seminar, but it wasn’t Myers-Briggs, nor MMPI. It was DiSC.

Four hours later, we learn I’m i/D (inspirational/Dominant) and that the following words describe me:

D: egocentric, direct, daring, domineering, demanding, forceful, risk-taker…
i: enthusiastic, gregarious, persuasive, impulsive, emotional…
S: restless, change-oriented, fault-finding, spontaneous, frustrated by status quo, active…
C: persistent, independent, rigid, firm, stubborn, arbitrary, and rebellious.

S and C stand for Steady and Competent. (The different qualities more or less correspond, according to the descriptive sheets, to pitta, vata, kapha, and a passive/aggressive vata-kapha mixture.)

While it was kind of fun to scratch things off with the side of a nickel (the assessment pamphlet was metal-reactive in certain fields), I didn’t particularly learn much about myself or about my co-workers. (Kaje was also i/D. Go figure.)

Of course, I’ve been doing this soul-searching trendy New Age shit for a looooong time, so that’s probably part of why I wasn’t all that impressed with my personality assessment. I mean, if you want to know what my learning and work styles are or how to effectively manage me? All you gotta do is ask and I’ll tell you. I know exactly what motivates and alienates me – because I know what I ‘am’ in the jargon of dozens of various cults, disciplines, and approaches – and it would take a helluva seminar to show me some part of myself I ain’t never seen before.

I’m pitta-kapha, extroverted, Violet, and only mildly deviate. That knowledge thanks to The Movement, Al-anon, and lots of self-directed reading!

Ahem. I may be being vaguely silly.

My over-all assessment of the experience was that it was okay, but would have been MUCH MORE FUN at four in the afternoon.

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Update update: Scratch what I said earlier. I did learn something I hadn’t known before, which is that apparently medical science now believes brain cells do regenerate!