COMMENT TO AN ARTICLE BY SHARMADEAN REID IN THE GUARDIAN
How to deal with
office politics
It all boils down to
human emotion
"Getting on with colleagues all boils down to human
emotion"
Wow, that's a little like saying our temperature depends on
the sun. What can a person do about that?
Human emotions are the set of impulses that give us murders,
rapes, beatings, violent thefts - to say nothing of wars and terror and
tyranny.
They are part of the atmosphere we breathe. Nasty office
politics are only the smallest part of their destructive capacity.
This kind of smiley, make-nice stuff reminds me of the
wishful thinking of old huckster Norman Vincent Peale, a man who sold a hell of
a pile of books and likely never really helped anyone.
People buy books out of hopefulness the same way they buy
gym memberships they never use or make resolutions they never keep. Or read
such insipid columns.
No, you are always going to meet and have to work with
people who are disagreeable, sometimes extremely so.
