Can’t we all just get along?
When you work in an office environment with lots of different personalities you are bound to all have different ideas on how things should be done and absolutely there are going to be different perspectives. What you have to keep in mind is this: we are all sharing a space and it’s an absolute necessity to respect each other boundaries. With that being said it’s often necessary to bend a little to accommodate other people’s feelings and idiosyncrasies.
I am lucky enough to share my workspace with probably the best group of people around and we all know I have my fair share of “quirks” and more often than I like I find myself stepping on my fellow space mate’s territory. It might be that I use the last supply without leaving a note or maybe I left a dish in the sink. To me its forgetfulness, to the space community it’s seen as a lack of respect for the community. Regardless it’s not the best way to play nice in an office setting.
I promise you this when I forget it’s usually because I don’t think; when you get right down to it usually when we make a mistake it’s because we rush through life and forget the details that are so important to other people. It’s not an excuse but the honest truth, still in order to keep harmony in the office I will try harder to respect the community rules as we all should old and new. In a nutshell what I am trying to say is this: if you are going to share your space with someone you better be prepared to learn to live within the community rules and REMEMBER them, and most importantly respect them.
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