Quick moan here, I'm running out of ideas to write on. This is also an issue I've been thinking about a bit recently. I've written in the past about how pathetically poor I'm at confrontation. Even if it means I lose on something big. For sometime now I've tried to frame it as a communications issue. That understanding has helped me make my point more clear to other parties. But some issues remain. Here's one.
On the weekends I'm often out. It's summer and people are doing something or the other. If I have done my dishes before Friday, then there's no dishes to clean until midweek next week. That's relaxing. Where this falls apart however is when people are crashing at my place. They will have their meals, and put their plates on the sink. Which is nice of them. But they don't clean it, or start the dishwasher. Come Monday or tuesday, I end up having to do a big load of dishwashing. Cleaning other people's dishes is no fun. Specially when one happens to have done a favor for them?
It's on me, I know. I should have set clearly communicated boundaries on the dish situation. It should have been known that the dishwasher is broken. And that if their dishes are not done, I don't feel motivated to work in the kitchen. But ugh, it feels weird. Specially because the dynamic is already set.
I'm such a shit negotiator. If I want to be a team leader, or lead companies etcetera, gotta be better at this!
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