I would like to ask people with a long work experience whether their colleagues ever called them when they have been sick. Does this depend on the work environment? Or does it depend on the type of job you do?
Well, let say that you work in an office that you share with other 3 to 10 people. Of these officemates, at least two are working on your same topics, so that you discuss with them new ideas, problems, customer requests, meeting agendas, and you travel with them to conferences and workshops. You are also close enough that during the business trips, the lunch breaks or just the mid afternoons of frustration, you exchange for more or less time some sentences about private topics, like family, career, dreams, holidays.
I have the impression that if these people have nothing better to do, they act like friends, whispering to you where are they going on holidays or how their family is doing. If they need any support in their ideas, they will remember where you sit and take for them your time. But if you are sick, they will not even read your phone number on post-it on their screen.
Has this always been like that? Would someone maybe say that once people where closer together, somehow nicer, less self-obsessed?
And maybe someone else will say, that was just a more sophisticated way of being self-obsessed, now at least people are more sincere and less hypocritical...
I think it is sad. In the era of communication, with at least a dozen of ways to reach a person laying in bed without having to move more than some muscles in the fingers or in the arm, no one bothers. We are all so superflous and replaceable, apparently. Maybe not, but that's the feeling one gets out of it.
Am I saying that people should be more hypocritical? No, I am probably just hoping people would care about other people without second purposes. Just hoping people would be nicer in a world where communication does not basically cost any effort or money. Hoping people would just care and look for something over the edge, instead of closing themselves in their worlds.
Well, let say that you work in an office that you share with other 3 to 10 people. Of these officemates, at least two are working on your same topics, so that you discuss with them new ideas, problems, customer requests, meeting agendas, and you travel with them to conferences and workshops. You are also close enough that during the business trips, the lunch breaks or just the mid afternoons of frustration, you exchange for more or less time some sentences about private topics, like family, career, dreams, holidays.
I have the impression that if these people have nothing better to do, they act like friends, whispering to you where are they going on holidays or how their family is doing. If they need any support in their ideas, they will remember where you sit and take for them your time. But if you are sick, they will not even read your phone number on post-it on their screen.
Has this always been like that? Would someone maybe say that once people where closer together, somehow nicer, less self-obsessed?
And maybe someone else will say, that was just a more sophisticated way of being self-obsessed, now at least people are more sincere and less hypocritical...
I think it is sad. In the era of communication, with at least a dozen of ways to reach a person laying in bed without having to move more than some muscles in the fingers or in the arm, no one bothers. We are all so superflous and replaceable, apparently. Maybe not, but that's the feeling one gets out of it.
Am I saying that people should be more hypocritical? No, I am probably just hoping people would care about other people without second purposes. Just hoping people would be nicer in a world where communication does not basically cost any effort or money. Hoping people would just care and look for something over the edge, instead of closing themselves in their worlds.
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