Showing your "crazy"

Today I had to give an unsuccessful employee a bi-annual review.  It was a really good tableau of when you should not show your "crazy" at work.  I was in there and my boss was in there.  We were trying to give her an overview of why she was ranking as unsatisfactory...and trust me it was not something we took lightly or wanted to deal with...and she absolutely would not listen to us.  I don't think you should choose the tactic of "it's not fair...it's just not fair" when your boss and her boss is saying "you need to listen to what we are saying...we are trying to help you". 

The funniest moment was when she said she had no idea what her job description is...the job she has been trying to do for 3 years..and I reminded her that when I started my first 2 weeks were filled with "this is not in my job description".  Silence.  A sweet moment of silence.  And then everything wasn't fair again and she was right and we were wrong and she does too do stuff.  It was one of those Zen "Office Space" moments.  "She takes the customers requirements to the Engineers....she's a people person damnit!"  Oh wait...the Engineers don't want to talk to her.  There goes that theory.

The moral of the story is...do not show your "crazy" at work.  Save it for your significant other or close friends who understand your "crazy".