I’ve been thinking about people in work. 5 out of the 8 other people I work with I don’t like, I mean, I don’t really get on with. Why you may ask? Because no matter what I do, no matter how right I am in doing whatever I was suppose to do, is wrong according to these 5 people. And if I do actually say or do something wrong, they think that I’m in a bad humour or pissed off at something or someone, when really I’m not either happy or sad, I’m just content.
For example; one day, it was 10:30am and I was about to go and collect the breakfast containers from the hot counter when Lynne* asked me to help her at the wash-up. I sighed and said “ok, whatever”. Lynne’s voice dramatically changed from being nice to mean in that very instance. She barked: “What?! Have you got something else to be doing?!” “No, it’s fine”, I responded. When she went to collect the full trolley from the floor I could hear her shouting at my manager saying “I’m not working in there on my own, blah blah blah!” About 5 minutes later someone else came in to help her so I went back to my pot-wash. As Lynne was drying the cutlery, she said “if you have a problem with doing the wash-up, you go and talk to [manager], it’s not my fault you’re in a bad mood.” I replied in a very calm, relaxed tone: “But I’m not in a bad mood a…” Lynne: “You are in a bad mood, Keith!” Then she stormed off.
So, wait, she knows my feelings? She knows how and why I said what I did? My point here is, don’t judge a book by its cover. Don’t assume something without actually knowing. Do you do that? Do you get angry at someone because they annoyed you? Why? What’s the use? It doesn’t get you anywhere. I think my co-workers are watching too many soaps and drama shows. This is the real, fucking world people! Wake up and smell the irony! Every action has an equal and opposite reaction.
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