What's your Super Power?

[Tiny]

I think I may have just discovered my "super power".   

I'm working on a project with an assortment of people. I am NOT the project Manager or the Team Lead.  It's a big enough project to have both of those.

There are a couple of 'difficult' to deal with people as team members.  The PM and the TL cringe (as well as most of the Team Members) whenever either of these two people need to be instructed to do something (even if it IS their job to do it). 

Well, it's been discovered that I can get these two people to do their job with little fuss or muss.   I guess because I'm not disconcerted or perturbed by their bluster and postering.   I think alot of people are afriad of the "problem children".
So, now I've got the PM and the TL running their requests to the "problem children" thru me in order to keep the project running on time.  

There are other 'difficult' people that are complained about, but who I have no issues with - my stuff always get done in a timely manner.  

I just use my "Little Sister" skills - I put on my 'flame retardant suit' and just ask them nicely wil being confident that they will do it or will help me.   I ask nicely repeatedly if I have to.   Maybe it's more of a "lesson" I learned from my cats (ie "it's ok to ask, over and over and over until get what you want"). 

Ok,  maybe I'm just so annoying that people who would normally NOT cooperate, cooperate just to get rid of me?  

I don't know why the TM and the TL can't do this, too.   I think I need to start getting some sort of 'kick back' from the PM and the TL.... 


So, what's your Super Power?   

[milee]

  I can see dirt. 

  What?  Since I'm the only one that lives in my house that can... I'm assuming it's a superpower and a secret.   

[Tiny]

Oct 10, 2014 13:32:22 GMT -5 milee said:

  I can see dirt. 

  What?  Since I'm the only one that lives in my house that can... I'm assuming it's a superpower and a secret.   

OMG... I'm gonna need a new monitor and keyboard... they've now got Diet Coke on them...    (I think I startled some of my coworkers with my laughter.  

[Nazgul Girl]

    I have several super powers.   I have the power of drinking too much Diet Pepsi, I have the power of Knowing A Lot of Trivia, and I have the power of making up songs with rhyming verses on the fly.   I also have the power of moving time and space, but I keep that one a secret  .

[NoNamePerson]

Oct 10, 2014 13:35:00 GMT -5 Tiny said:

Oct 10, 2014 13:32:22 GMT -5 milee said:

  I can see dirt. 

  What?  Since I'm the only one that lives in my house that can... I'm assuming it's a superpower and a secret.   

OMG... I'm gonna need a new monitor and keyboard... they've now got Diet Coke on them...    (I think I startled some of my coworkers with my laughter.  

Me too except I am home and slouched so far down in my chair I would have spit Diet Pepsi all over the girls  

ETA: I can see dirt too but only when I have my glasses on. Otherwise my house is spotless!!

[vonna]

No super powers here, but several times during my military career I was complimented for my "poker face" and "deliberate decision making"

The reality was, I was thinking "Oh sh**!! I don't know what to do!" And after contemplating a bit (sometimes I'm sure it was too long), and conferring with trusted sources, I would eventually come to a decision.

[Phoenix84]

A lot of people are conflict adverse, those who can handle it well are valuable.

[kent]

Just like my great granddaughter told her dad....

[Bob Ross]

I'm really good at calling people "f*&king idiots".

Not to their face, however, but to the person in charge.

Did I also mention that I'm really good at backstabbing?

[Phoenix84]

Oct 10, 2014 13:54:21 GMT -5 Nazgul Girl said:

    I have several super powers.   I have the power of drinking too much Diet Pepsi, I have the power of Knowing A Lot of Trivia, and I have the power of making up songs with rhyming verses on the fly.   I also have the power of moving time and space, but I keep that one a secret  .

Diet Pepsi, the breakfast of champions.

[ZaireinHD]

my superpower is knowing the difference between just listening to her talk and when she is looking for an answer.
sometimes she just wants to talk and have someone listen to her day, her cycle, her family, her friends, her work.
then sometimes she wants to talk about a situation she is having and wants to know what I think.
but in order to know the difference I have to listen first.

[Malarky]

My superpower is the ability to function on very little sleep.  I've had about 25 hours of sleep this week.  Total.  Not enough, even for me.
I'm off to bed now. Usually I go to bed between 11 or 11:30 and get up between between 4 and 5 am.
Hoping to sleep at least 6 straight hours.

[Deleted]

Oct 11, 2014 20:49:09 GMT -5 Malarky said:

My superpower is the ability to function on very little sleep.  I've had about 25 hours of sleep this week.  Total.  Not enough, even for me.
I'm off to bed now. Usually I go to bed between 11 or 11:30 and get up between between 4 and 5 am.
Hoping to sleep at least 6 straight hours.

I wish I had that superpower.

I need 7 which is what I normally get, do better with 8, wish for 9.

[GRG a/k/a goldenrulegirl]

My superpower is to find humor in just about any situation.  Even difficult problems can be a little less difficult to bear when I can find something about them to laugh at.  Certainly, I try to be appropriate about it when necessary.  But, I haven't found anything yet that a little humor -- even gallows humor -- didn't make more bearable.  

[shanendoah]

My super powers in order of usefulness:

1) I find things. I don't have to be the one who put it there. It doesn't have to be in my house. If I go to a friend's house and they say "I misplaced this thing I need", I can find it. I do have to actively look, and it's not always in the first place I look, but I do find it.

2) My memory is stalker like. Random things my friends, coworkers, or even mere acquaintances mention, stories they tell only once, etc, I will remember. When we're actually friends, it can come in useful. When you're a coworker, and I reference something you mentioned once three years ago, it can seem a little creepy.

3) I can do an accurate tarot reading for the person you are pretending to be.

[quince]

My superpowers used to be never getting sick and functioning on 4 hours of sleep a night. Then I met my husband. Now I get colds all the damned time and need 6-8 hours a night. He's my kryptonite.

[zibazinski]

My super power is coming up with better words than the words you use. My DD is writing her essay for grad application. She sent it to me, I fixed it, she likes it better. 

[8 Bit WWBG]

My foolish optimism regarding the trustworthiness and general worth of others.  It lets me give a certainty up front in exchange for an uncertainty at an unspecified future time, that never actually materializes.  I am able to do this while not offing myself, or someone else.

[NoNamePerson]

Oct 12, 2014 12:30:07 GMT -5 8 Bit WWBG said:

My foolish optimism regarding the trustworthiness and general worth of others.  It lets me give a certainty up front in exchange for an uncertainty at an unspecified future time, that never actually materializes.  I am able to do this while not offing myself, or someone else.

I think I just developed another super power. I actually got what you are saying. No reflection on you, I'm just slow when someone writes something deep/insightful    

[NoNamePerson]

Oct 12, 2014 15:09:08 GMT -5 @anne81 said:

My super power is taking organic food and making it unhealthy.

Do you bring the food home and spray insectides on all over it? 

[cronewitch]

link

[Jake 48]

Stirring the shit, bullshitting, deflecting the problem and being an antagonizing asshole when it suits me

[Deleted]

Turning formerly productive men into slugs. I started small, with a man that was already a slug. But I've graduated to actually inducing the sluggishness in them.

[chen35]

I know, without thinking about it, exactly how long things will take. For example, if I need to meet a friend for dinner at 6:00, but I have four stops I need to make before then, I know exactly when I need to leave the house/work to get to dinner on time. I think it comes from years of dealing with my mother's tardiness. I hated it!

[Wisconsin Beth]

Oct 10, 2014 13:54:21 GMT -5 Nazgul Girl said:

    I have several super powers.   I have the power of drinking too much Diet Pepsi, I have the power of Knowing A Lot of Trivia, and I have the power of making up songs with rhyming verses on the fly.   I also have the power of moving time and space, but I keep that one a secret  .

You have a TARDIS?!

[The Captain]

I have the uncanny ability to operating the little springs that hold the round cycindrical object holding paper in certain rooms, remove it when empty, and place a new fully loaded roll in it's place.  It must be special because I'm the only one in my family who can do it.

[Chocolate Lover]

My current super power is letting all the people I share a house with live. I can't say how much longer that power is going to last though. 

[giramomma]

I can walk into a new setting and scan all the safety issues and/or things my two year old can get into.


ETA: I'll put eyes in the back of my head back here.

[Chocolate Lover]

Oct 13, 2014 15:07:14 GMT -5 giramomma said:

I have eyes in the back of my head.

I have that one! They haven't figured out that I can hear much better than I can see through walls

[NoNamePerson]

Oct 13, 2014 15:08:30 GMT -5 Chocolate Lover said:

Oct 13, 2014 15:07:14 GMT -5 giramomma said:

I have eyes in the back of my head.

I have that one! They haven't figured out that I can hear much better than I can see through walls

Funny how when taking my son and friends somewhere and they were all in the back seat yammering away. I sat very quietly and they seemed to forget I was up front driving. Amazing the things I learned and then son would say "how do you know that" Mothers are all knowing and sneaky as hell.

Also learned to chew on my tongue to keep from laughing and/or commenting to some of these backseat discussions.