“I’ll always be in love with my initial impression of you.”
I always think of that when I am at work. The majority of the time, I’m watching, a lot of mighty fine impressions. There are some people, I know, who are behaving their true selves. Like the ones that eat at their desk and wipe their face with their sleeve, or burp erroneously when you are on the phone with a client. Or the one person who decides he’s going to have a sailors tongue in the most opportune moment when the boss walks out of the office.
Lets face it, we spend more hours with our co-workers then we do with our family. Don’t let this fool you. That doesn’t mean they would make good friends and roommates. One, we have no choice but to act that way, and two, this is not their true selves. I can speak for the mass majority of us who tend to keep our flatulence to ourselves. Without rules in place, they would be more, like our family. The ones that we omit from telling our friends about.
Best example is the breakroom. Many of us have seen that sign “Your mother doesn’t work here, clean up after yourself” Like, that is a threat. Most of us, are glad, we don’t work with our mothers. Does that mean if that sign wasn’t in place, we’d be hearing inconsistent nagging to clean up our rooms and questions if we finished our homework? It always amazes me, no matter where I’ve worked, people tend to leave their stuff behind. It’s not only trash. Even the important things, like keys, and my favorite, birth control pills. Some things, you can’t make up.
You can’t forget about the signs in the bathroom. “Employees MUST wash hands” or “Dispose of waste properly”, and it points an arrow to a trash can. There are more females that don’t wash their hands. Women, by nature, are very clean animals, but how they dispose of things, well, not so much so. Watching someone wash their hands in water, makes me think of a cat’s multi-purpose tongue. You can’t help but THINK of where it’s been, and what its going to touch next. People need to lather soap, with water, to get a good effect. And people, STILL bypass that sign ‘Must wash hands.’ We learned this in elementary, and it proves that very same point, some people, just don’t learn.
Then again, some people feel, if there isn’t a sign, it’s OK to do it. I’m surprised these people don’t need a sign to wipe their butts when they are done.
If these aren’t indicators enough, that people we work with are better, left, at the job, I don’t know what is. I’m not saying I work with a bunch of heathens. I’ve made some really good friends at work. I’m just saying, the majority of my experiences at most of my jobs, have been the result of me either changing jobs, or zip codes, because someone didn’t do a thorough enough job on someones background check. It wasn’t an IQ test that got people hired in my last job, it was passing the urine-in-the-cup, test.
I not only support this message, but I, too, am a victim.
I know that initial impressions, are just that. Initial impressions. If I knew what I was getting into, I don’t think I would have tried.
I dated my ex boss.
Need I say more.
