2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
Sergei Petrovich, sat at a meeting of department heads. He was the owner of the business and listened to them swear. He thought about how tired he was. It's the same every time! It is not possible to agree. They pour mud on each other and nothing more. Production is in decline.
Whatever he said and did not suggest in one department, accusations immediately poured in the address of another department. He felt desperate and powerless, not knowing how to deal with it. Confusion consumed him, and he wanted to be taken by the hand and pulled out of this fire.
Olga Sergeevna, the head of the delivery department, looked like an alien guest. She shaved her head bald, raised her eyebrows and inserted bright yellow lenses. Sergei Petrovich, sometimes represented her with antennas on her head. From this he felt joy and excitement. But fearing that everyone would guess what his thoughts were about, he returned to the meeting.
As a child, he was told that they knew what he was thinking. But so no one ever said what. However, he tried to control his thoughts. Especially on the topic of sex. If they find out about them, then he will be ashamed and embarrassed, but he did not want to experience this. Although he did not understand what it is impossible to fantasize?
Another participant in industrial disputes, the head of the advertising department, a young, similar to the English Lord Dmitry Olegovich. He and Olga Sergeevna argued all the time. They reminded Sergei Petrovich of his children, who quarreled about cleaning, figuring out whose turn it was to put things in order. At home he hid in his office, but there was nowhere to hide. They argued in his office. He could only get up and leave.
He once again looked at Dmitry Olegovich and Olga Sergeevna, his gaze stopped at her. A chill ran down my spine. He thought - that if he sees in these two, his children, then she turns out to be the eldest daughter! And he sometimes gets excited to Olga Sergeevna when he imagines …
"No no no! - he thought in horror - I cannot be attracted to my own daughter! This is madness! And why did I even think about it! " Shame gripped him, and he was ready to sink into the ground.
Having calmed down, he reflected on: “My daughter is growing. Becomes an attractive, young woman. I am her father. But I'm a man and I feel aroused for her. How do I even think about this! Damn it! - Sergei Petrovich fidgeted in his chair, - However, I can tell my daughter that she is beautiful and attractive. The time will come when she will meet a young man. He will make a family nest with him, as I did with her mother. And if I am afraid of this and avoid my reactions, then she will think that something is wrong with her …”The rumble of the meeting distracted him from his thoughts.
Sergei Petrovich looked around the audience as if he were trying to find something. He looked at the head of production, Oleg Ivanovich, who tried to sit out at every meeting, saying that he was doing well … “Whom does he remind me of? - Sergei Petrovich asked a question - Father-in-law! Like a father-in-law. Now in the family the question arose about buying him a new car. The wife begins these conversations after talking to her mother. She complains to her that he disappears for days in the garage. And after each trip he repairs the car. And the father-in-law is happy with everything! He doesn't understand why he needs a new car when the old one still drives ?! And really why? Maybe he's hiding from his wife like that? Why am I getting involved? Well, yes, he's my wife's father … But he doesn't want a new car! I'll talk to my wife. Maybe she wants to drive a car, but no, I'll change it so-so. He doesn’t want to rape a person, and okay!”
Returning to the meeting from his reflections, he heard that the warehouses were empty and the goods were being bought up faster than they were produced, and Oleg Ivanovich did not care. He believed that importing new equipment was unprofitable. Yevgeny Dmitrievich, the head of the personnel department, said that if new equipment was installed, then 30% of the workers would have to be fired. It is economically profitable, with new equipment production will increase …
“Just like my father-in-law! - thought Sergei Petrovich - and Evgeny Dmitrievich is like my wife, who tells her father how economical it is to buy a new car. Something strange is happening, I’m at work, right? And it feels like he never left the house."
Sergei Petrovich ended the meeting with the decision to dismiss Oleg Ivanovich. He gave Olga Sergeevna and Dmitry Olegovich the last chance to come to an agreement and improve relations. Agree on a joint action plan. And if this does not happen, then they will also be fired. Evgeny Dmitrievich asked to start updating equipment and find a new production manager.
And he went home with the idea of inviting his wife to a restaurant. There, offer to buy her a car, and leave the father-in-law alone. He walked and did not notice how he smiled …
From Uv. gestalt therapist Dmitry Lenngren
