Jebus God. I actually do not KNOW how one gets the balance right, not having ever been a manager ... but bear in mind also you've not been there that long and they are probably still feeling you out just the same as you're feeling out exactly what your position allows you to do and at what pace.
Bubbly is a very strange way to describe a new MANAGER to people in a workplace. It almost sounds like one person said it and people picked it up almost as a joke, because "bubbly" and "Scot" do not really go together in the popular imagination, do they? I mean there's no bubbles in shortbread OR whiskey and if tartan was bubbly it would be seersucker. Perhaps they just wanted to ensure people didn't expect you to be dour or headbutt them on sight ... no, really. I've got nothing, it's quite weird.
Many of my female friends throughout my life have been objectively quite small people, 5ft2 and under, and they have seemed to split evenly between being *very* quiet and shy, or overcompensatingly loud and theatrical. Maybe the fact that you're neither confuses them?
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Date: 2011-02-10 12:55 pm (UTC)Bubbly is a very strange way to describe a new MANAGER to people in a workplace. It almost sounds like one person said it and people picked it up almost as a joke, because "bubbly" and "Scot" do not really go together in the popular imagination, do they? I mean there's no bubbles in shortbread OR whiskey and if tartan was bubbly it would be seersucker. Perhaps they just wanted to ensure people didn't expect you to be dour or headbutt them on sight ... no, really. I've got nothing, it's quite weird.
Many of my female friends throughout my life have been objectively quite small people, 5ft2 and under, and they have seemed to split evenly between being *very* quiet and shy, or overcompensatingly loud and theatrical. Maybe the fact that you're neither confuses them?