Today, I actually had to make a couple of calls on whether I had committed a technical complaint infraction. In one case I made the observation of “Dumb” in response to a TV show where some but not all faces were blurred in a segment about a robot programmed to navigate public spaces. I quickly amended that comment by saying it wasn’t dumb that some people wanted to hide their faces, just that I would not do so.
It was negative, but was it a complaint? I don’t think so.
Earlier in the day, through my own error/miscommunication, I ended up waiting to meet someone for the third time and grew frustrated after 15 minutes, thinking the person had just started a meeting even though we had scheduled to meet. It turned out I had the offices mixed up, but before learning this I told another person that I couldn’t stay any longer as I had more work to do (which was accurate). Was I complaining or just stating facts? It was more the latter but my tone was on a very fine line between just imparting information and getting kind of whiny about it.
Still, I think I stayed on the side of not complaining.
The rest of the day went by without issue and even complications later on did not ruffle my imaginary feathers.
So onward to Day 6 for the second time.