I come to you, oh great Straight Dope Community, for your collective opinions.
First, a little background. Today I attended a class on WORDPower, which basically was a seminar on turning negatives to positives, and directing your energy toward being positive. A small example, insteading of saying “It’s too hard”, one could say, “It could be easier”. The class progressed toward labeling people and/or emotions or frustrations those people may cause in you and putting a positive spin on them.
My co-worker and I both attended the class and have a problem with a certain individual in our office. I don’t want to get into all of the frustration and anger he causes us, not to mention his ineptness because it’s better suited for the Pit. Suffice it to say, he is driving us to the brink of insanity and certainly unprofessionalism. I have some pet names for said individual. Those names are names commonly seen in the Pit. I’ve adopted names such as F’tard, Asshat, and couple of others to apply to said individual (in private of course).
I humbly put forth the question to you: Is there a way to put a positive spin on these labels?
I know this sounds tongue in cheek, and to some degree it is. However, I would like to start directing my efforts and energy to something other than said individual.
Any input folks?