Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Coworker vs Friend

I am practicing not being friends at work.

While I still like my coworkers, and am willing to help out, I am turning my empathy toward them down to level 2 - casual acquaintanceship.

I will offer little of my personal self and focus on professional attitude and speech. I will limit conversation to 95% work related topics.

I will do this because someone complained about my tardiness and computer usage to my supervisor.

I will do this because someone treated me as a coworker, not a friend. I will probably be a better employee for it.

It feels like a loss.

2 Comments:

At 6:34 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

We've all done it. I had some very dramatic Facebook break-ups( and now denials) because the people you work with don't REALLY know you like that and the truth is you probably don't want them to.--c3

 
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