This office suppresses me, depresses me. My god this office can suck the life out of you. No windows = no natural light, fights over the air-con so we either freeze or boil, fights over the coffee – who gets the last cup because no one can be bothered to walk upstairs and get another one ‘you know I can not bill for walking upstairs to get a cup’. The odd scrap over computers, laptops, memory sticks because, after all, ‘my work is more important than yours!’ This appears to be the mentality our department has taken on, once there used to be a feeling of one for all, and all for one, we helped people out because we WANTED to help them, nowadays we help people out to help ourselves because we NEED to, for billing.
The pressure for everyone has changed, which creates frictions, self-preservation kicks in and everyone is out for themselves, yes they will say they want to help out because they wish they still could but at the end of the day they will help out when they too can gain from it.
It is sad that this is what it has come to, but that is the way our work is being driven. Once upon a time we were a small company fighting to make it big time, we were a family and we needed each other. Now we have made it the expectations change, the pressure is piled on and you find yourself fight against the people you were once fighting for.
Tags: Coffee, Expectations of the work place, Law, Modern Office, Office, Pressure, success
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