10/30/2022 0 Comments Nonfun negative nancy![]() I don’t know that Gus is just deliberately trying to sabotage a positive workplace, but he’s enough to suck the life out of everyone around him. Whether it is his work performance or his physical aches and pains, he will regale any unfortunate listener with all the depressing details. Everything is always horrible, and Gus never has anything good to report. Not so bad a character, but after a while, hearing about how everything is going to go to hell in handbasket can get a little rough on the ears. Clarie also likes to complain about her situation, the behavior of others, and the general condition of her surroundings, but she is completely uninterested in the contributed solutions of friends, colleagues, or family, Offered options are often met with “Yeah… but…” It’s like she doesn’t want anything to improve… she just wants to bitch about it. Finding the failure and pain points is all well and good Clarie, but how do you suggest we fix it?!?īless his heart. For CC, it’s not so much the potential, but the eventual, and she is absolutely certain about negative outcome. We all need someone who can be devil’s advocate and plan for the potentiality of failure, but she’s not so forth-coming with the solutions. She will find every single hole and stumbling block along the path… Not so bad, you say? Maybe not. ![]() Without fail, CC will always doubt the potential of any plan. Clarie’s glass is always half empty… if not entirely dry. Quick to point out all the flaws, Clarie can spot all the ways that something can and will go wrong. They never have a good word to say about anyone, and while they are always willing to share all the juiciest gossip (especially if it is bad news), they are not the group in which you want to confide… since their next news story might be about you! ![]() Prognosticators of pussilescence, they will be the first to predict misfortune and a downturn of luck when things are going well. Nothing suits them quite so well as being able to share something horrible about someone who has had a run of good fortune. While I’m pretty certain that a Perpetually Positive Polly would spark homicidal rage in the most stable of breasts, treading too long in the dark is draining, exhausting, and just not productive.Ĭan often be found hanging out with her buddy Debbie Downer. She and Debbie can find the cloud around every silver lining. In fact, they are some of the most virulent agents of ill that are completely undocumented by the CDC or FDA or any other official sounding acronym that I could come up with to illustrate the point. ![]()
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