The Guardian published an article headed ‘Work it out‘. I find it a little frightening. I remember my manager once asking me what I believed to be my greatest weakness. I replied,’ I’m politically dense.’
Perhaps I’m less naive now than I was back then. It seems to me that no one has tried to block me from doing anything I wanted to do. I don’t know if it’s because everything has gone my way so far, or if I simply don’t notice the bad stuff. Maybe everyone in the world is cynical and I should be happy that I’m in a bubble of optimism. But I’m a bit concerned that if the bubble pops, I’ll be unprepared and embittered.
I find that article more than a little frightening — it terrifies me. Of course I *know* rationally that office politics exist. That doesn’t make me any more capable of coping with them. Somewhere along the line, I think I was absent at the meeting where they gave out the work-type competitive streaks and the Machiavellian natures :-/ Scared now.
Oh well, back to being a slacker and choosing to be defined not by my day job but by the other stuff I do, where I can at least get on with it in peace 🙂 See you Friday!
-nattie x