Manners and Therapy
Having a blog is sort of like therapy. Not that I would know anything about therapy at all, although I probably wouldn’t mind paying someone to listen to my complaints once in a while. If I could afford it.
Mind you, I try as much as possible to not bother those around me with all my issues all the time. Although I do make use of the opportunity every now and then.
For instance…I hardly ever speak about work issues at home and definitely don’t speak about home issues at work. I have enough stuff going on at home and work to keep me entertained at both places.
Blogging helps when you just want to get something off your chest. And it’s a lot cheaper than therapy.
Anyway, my issue right now is manners.
I wonder if I was ever bothered about others’ behaviour when I was younger or if it’s just one of those things that come with age.
Because I just don’t get how rude people can be.
What bugs me currently is office manners, because it’s people you see every day.
Okay, let me just say that I have bad cellphone manners at work. I am one of the worst offenders when it comes to cellphone use in the office. I pretty much use my cellphone for email, facebook and everything inbetween while sitting in a meeting. And since being the subject of gossip a while ago, I listen to music with earphones 90% of the day while working.
Im sure there are more things I do that annoy my colleagues.
So maybe I shouldn’t complain too much…however this is my blog, my therapy. So I guess it’s alright to nitpick here.
One of the things that really bugs me (enough to blog about it) is when three or more of us are having a conversation and I get totally ignored. And it’s not as if I walked in on their conversation.
I could be talking to A when B walks in and the two carry on a conversation as if I’m not there. No apology, no acknowledgement that I’m even there.
It’s happened twice with the same two people in the last two weeks.
Obviously I know it’s being done deliberately (or they’re portraying passive aggressive behaviour as a therapist might say), so I walk away.
But why is it necessary for people to do that intentionally?
Office politics, I guess.
However it also makes me aware of how I don’t want to cause someone else to feel, so it’s not all bad.
Come to think of it – if I go for any sort of therapy it should be for cellphone addiction!
