Well the problem I seem to have as far as voice goes is that whenever I'm talking with someone I'm not comfortable with (80% of my coworkers) I tend to either talk like "S-Sorry, coworker-San" or "MAIM KILL BURN" with great difficulty with anything inbetween.
And whenever I use the former, they say they can't hear me, and when I use the latter, I sound angry.
And the problem isn't with me failling to ask for confirmation, because I do that all the time, it's other people assuming that they heard me when they didn't, and not asking for confirmation.
I'll work on the enunciation, though.
Are you me at a different restaurant?
Seriously.
I can never tell if my co-workers heard me or not, and while I don't get shit for being angry, when I speak up I feel awful because I feel like I'm being hurtful. Not that what I'm saying is actually hurtful.
Heh. First two days my boss actually assumed I was mute. When I corrected someone else on something I had learned on my first day, my boss practically jumped out of her skin at hearing the "loud" voice.
Still, I don't speak up enough either because it sounds upset when I do, so I wind up with co-workers who don't watch the running hot water while I speak with a customer who's got the wrong item, or who don't look down at the floor where there is sharp glass or slippery oil, or who don't notice that they charged the customer extra or less then they were supposed to, and we end up with a hairy situation. And those times I do speak up, my co-workers stare at me blankly (Like, "Whoah, did he just yell angrily at me? Him?"), and they take so long doing that that the hairy situation that would have resulted if they didn't hear me happens anyways.
So while I don't have people getting upset for me sounding angry, I still have the same general problem of not having a middle voice that solves problems.
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