Drama
posted by Jen | 10:30 AM
I’m sad... Nobody has updated their blog today. Even me. But I’m fixing that.
The word of the week seems to be “drama”. I know that office politics happen everywhere, but most of the time I feel somewhat immune to it here. In general, I feel that we do that “team working toward a common goal” thing pretty well. Even with the strong personalities that I work with day in and day out.
This week, though, I have had discussions about hurt feelings like 4 times in the last two days. Jokes that were taken personally. People feeling unappreciated. People not talking to the people they should and instead making a big fuss to those above them. People still bitter over missunderstaindings I thought we took care of months ago.
Maybe I flatter myself, but I consider myself a pretty empathetic person. I think I understand why people are taking things so hard, while at the same time thinking that they might be overreacting a bit. I can see the good intentions on both sides, and it’s frustrating to me that the good intentions are getting lost in the communcation barrier.
Really, I just want everyone to get along. If half the world would grow just a slightly thicker skin and the other half would learn to think before they speak, so much drama could be avoided.
The word of the week seems to be “drama”. I know that office politics happen everywhere, but most of the time I feel somewhat immune to it here. In general, I feel that we do that “team working toward a common goal” thing pretty well. Even with the strong personalities that I work with day in and day out.
This week, though, I have had discussions about hurt feelings like 4 times in the last two days. Jokes that were taken personally. People feeling unappreciated. People not talking to the people they should and instead making a big fuss to those above them. People still bitter over missunderstaindings I thought we took care of months ago.
Maybe I flatter myself, but I consider myself a pretty empathetic person. I think I understand why people are taking things so hard, while at the same time thinking that they might be overreacting a bit. I can see the good intentions on both sides, and it’s frustrating to me that the good intentions are getting lost in the communcation barrier.
Really, I just want everyone to get along. If half the world would grow just a slightly thicker skin and the other half would learn to think before they speak, so much drama could be avoided.
Labels: rocket science
2 Comments:
So sitting on my little island and making me oblivious to the B30 happenings has struck again... maybe I'm glad this time :)
At least people are talking about how they feel, right, instead of just going home and getting mad, right?
I think one interesting thing about NASA, and even Blue, is that people are somewhat less likely to leave if they get fed up with office politics. Though I have definitely seen people leave. I've also seen more politics as the company has grown - a lot more. So I also think it's pretty cool that a large company like NASA would not have too much politics on the group level.
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