The second family with whom I spend my 5 x 9 hours a week has given me an amazing bunch of friends. It has also taught me a bit about office politics, dynamics, and physics. What I also learnt is where to draw a line when it comes to personal interference. In every office, there is this one person whom you wouldn't get along with. The reason can be as silly as 'I don't like how he/she looks' to more serious ones like workplace harassment. What I have learnt over the years is that, if not warranted or requested, keep the advice and suggestion to oneself. It would save you from embarrassment and save your friendship.
I have been facing a peculiar problem in my workplace over the past 6 months. Comments that are supposedly harmless are being frequented at me and after a while they are not harmless anymore. They are plain annoying. Usually, I defer from strong reactions to balance out workplace ethics, but so it seems someone needs a whole lesson and more more on that topic. Passing a comments over ones weight or marriage is not part of team bonding activity, it is one such activity that should be kept in the heart and not let slip through the tongue. I am a very sensitive person and take offence in personal comments, but still choose to ignore. Come a point even the snake spits venom from its fangs and right now I am on the verge of doing exactly that. A direct confrontation is not something that I would prefer, but I have no choice left.
Have you faced such a scenario in your workplace?. How do you deal with such situations?
I have been facing a peculiar problem in my workplace over the past 6 months. Comments that are supposedly harmless are being frequented at me and after a while they are not harmless anymore. They are plain annoying. Usually, I defer from strong reactions to balance out workplace ethics, but so it seems someone needs a whole lesson and more more on that topic. Passing a comments over ones weight or marriage is not part of team bonding activity, it is one such activity that should be kept in the heart and not let slip through the tongue. I am a very sensitive person and take offence in personal comments, but still choose to ignore. Come a point even the snake spits venom from its fangs and right now I am on the verge of doing exactly that. A direct confrontation is not something that I would prefer, but I have no choice left.
Have you faced such a scenario in your workplace?. How do you deal with such situations?
