Handling Baffling Situations

One of the challenges in for me is applying the principles I have learned in Alcoholics Anonymous outside of those rooms and outside of my coven. How do I apply spiritual principles at work?

To put it succinctly, not well.

Today I faced a situation where a call was transferred to me for tech support and at the end of the call the guy placed an order. I did not get the guy’s name when I spoke with him. I assumed my coworker T. got that information when she spoke to him.

So, I email an order to her, she looks up and says “Who actually ordered this?” and I don’t know. There she is, looking at me like I am an idiot. By now I don’t need any help to feel like an idiot. I can feel myself getting angry and it actually crosses my mind that I could just get up and go, walk out, get a different job. I am furious at her because she did not get that info.

Really, it is not her or the guy bugging me. I have a potentially much larger client who has to go on hold to deal with this. That is why I am rattled.

I paused. I did remember that I am powerless over others. I did turn some of it over to Her. Now I am letting it be. I have done what I can and I feel much better.

Its amazing the difference a pause can make. What a difference a Higher Power can make. What were those promises? We will intuitively know how to handle situations that used to baffle us.

Well, I still do not know who ordered, but I know they are coming Friday, so we can have it ready anyway.