Cary Tennis and the impatient man

Salon’s Cary Tennis fields a question from a person whose problem is excessive impatience with other people, especially in workplace situations (meetings where it takes other folks forever to come to the point, water-cooler chit-chat, etc.). Apparently this is one heck of a Rorschach question, because everyone in the letters–which is the most interesting part to read–is so clearly projecting onto the LW whatever personality/belief/situation/disorder they’ve had to deal with recently. To one, the LW is obviously a Gen Y’er new to the workplace; to another, a sufferer of ADHD; to another, a classic Myers-Briggs INTJ; to another, a brave rebel against corporate mindlessness; to another, an entitled schmuck.

I tend toward the “entitled schmuck” interpretation, myself, but check out all the letters, or a handful, at least, and get a sense of the variety of responses.

The best letter, from Villagejonesy, contains this gem:

You’re impatient with long, drawn-out conversation, and you wrote to Cary Tennis?

Heh.

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