Something that might help everyone, that is a little cringe.
I’ve had Mark Manson’s: The life changing magic of not giving a fuck sat on my shelf for about 5 years unread.
Then this week gave it a read, and found it really helpful for our profession.
so today… open email
“I’m so disappointed you didn’t pay our bullshit overvalued application in full, because my director wants improved cash flow this month for his annual bonus”
Now my normal response would be to get into some slagging match explaining why their QS was an incorrect and incompetent dickhead and their commercial director can take his pressure on his team and shove it up his ass, but rather my response was:
I applied the contract to best of my knowledge now I need to move on.
The end result was so much less stress. It was almost empowering not getting wrapped up in other parties problems and demands.
Just focus on the things I can influence, and doing the best job I can. Another's emotional overreaction to not understanding the contract is LITERALLY not your problem.
(You could also point out that by my writing of this post, it has slightly affected me, but you could also point I'm still unable to use my QSing degree to make £300k or shag Margot Robbie yet.