How we behave doesn't have to be more or less important than what we do, but it certainly needs to be as important.
Agreed!
I've been at work in an emergency room during a full blown code - definite life or death situation. Doctors bark orders brusquely, rudely, and angrily. Everyone's adrenaline is running full-force, and everyone understands the decorum of usual behavior is suspended until the crisis is over. No ER nurse ever goes to the corner and cries because the doctor yelled, "Hurry up, God-damnit!"
That said, anything short of life or death is simply not worthy of indulging oneself in rude, angry behavior. I guarantee that if someone behaves like an ass during a non-emergency situation then whatever it is that person is trying to achieve will mean little to me. It will be the obnoxious behavior I remember once the interaction is long past.
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Agreed!
I've been at work in an emergency room during a full blown code - definite life or death situation. Doctors bark orders brusquely, rudely, and angrily. Everyone's adrenaline is running full-force, and everyone understands the decorum of usual behavior is suspended until the crisis is over. No ER nurse ever goes to the corner and cries because the doctor yelled, "Hurry up, God-damnit!"
That said, anything short of life or death is simply not worthy of indulging oneself in rude, angry behavior. I guarantee that if someone behaves like an ass during a non-emergency situation then whatever it is that person is trying to achieve will mean little to me. It will be the obnoxious behavior I remember once the interaction is long past.