Are you touchy about being corrected?

mamie329 · September 2009

If you're doing something wrong, no matter how trivial it is, do you want someone to point it out so you can fix it for the future, or do you hate being critiqued no matter what?
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Kellybeth124 · September 2009

Other - it's not so much what's being corrected as how the corrector goes about it, KWIM?

hawkilady · September 2009

Like KB said it depends on how its corrected and also who is correcting me. I take it better from some people than others.

mamie329 · September 2009

Kellybeth124:
Other - it's not so much what's being corrected as how the corrector goes about it, KWIM?

Completely. Though, as a normal corrector when it comes to certain things, I struggle with how to do so in a positive manner when the very act of correcting is pretty condescending.

Kellybeth124 · September 2009

I totally understand what you're saying Mamie. My mother corrected me as a child very frequently, especially my speech and pronunciation. MIL on the other hand wouldn't DREAM of correcting her children because she was very concerned about hurting their feelings. For example, DH said "leafs" instead of "leaves" until he was 21. I try so hard to be kind when he says things totally incorrectly, but sometimes it just comes out harsh. It's a daily struggle.

mamie329 · September 2009

Kellybeth124:
I totally understand what you're saying Mamie. My mother corrected me as a child very frequently, especially my speech and pronunciation. MIL on the other hand wouldn't DREAM of correcting her children because she was very concerned about hurting their feelings. For example, DH said "leafs" instead of "leaves" until he was 21. I try so hard to be kind when he says things totally incorrectly, but sometimes it just comes out harsh. It's a daily struggle.

Aww, "leafs" is kind of cute. With DH, I'm less kind and more direct. That's how I roll sometimes.

I just want to teach the world. But not be a *** about it. Straddling that line is getting hard when you're not sure if the correctee will flip out.

stjoespirit04 · September 2009

I said depends, for everything KB mentioned.

shagadelk7 · September 2009

I'm perfect so no one ever has to correct me. Haha. In all seriousness, it really depends on what it is and if the person is condescending about it.

I work in finance and our team is incredibly detail oriented. When it comes to month end we end up finding multitudes of errors that accounting has caused. In order for our numbers to be correct we end up having to call up accounting and call them out on their mistakes. There was a point last month that they made so manry errors that they stopped answering their phones when they saw someone on our team calling them. They get offended when we call them. We are nice to them, but they act like we are out to get them. It really pisses me off.

I'll be honest though, I find no greater pleasure than when someone thinks they're correcting me and they're actually the one that is wrong, especially if they're condescending about it.

chrissyvcm · September 2009

For me, it's more about who is doing the correcting than what is being corrected.

As an example, we have a new trainer in our gym who sucks! She's the wife of one of the guy trainers and has sortof been given the job because of who she is, not her skillset. She's a terrible athlete, with poor form, who doesn't try very hard in her workouts (I know this sounds harsh, but it's a very different type of environment and you have to know it to understand it). I'm a d*mn good trainer and a good athlete with great form in all of my movements. At the end of a grueling workout though, when my form starts to slip, I'll be d*mned if I'm going to listen to her corrections. If any of the other trainers correct me, I'm receptive, no matter how tired I am. Just not coming from her.

Leigha12 · September 2009

I put depends, but really the answer is almost always yes, but only because I'm almost never wrong. Angel

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