Comment by giarc

Comment by giarc 2 days ago

5 replies

It's funny to see this here. I manage a large team and just the other day had to deal with irate employees who are arguing over whether they should be saying "Good morning" to each other when they come into the office.

One employee thinks it should almost be "mandatory" to greet each other, where the other employee says she isn't in the headspace to be greeting people early in the morning and would rather get settled at her desk. Pretty obvious, but these two employees hate eachother and this is a sign of a bigger problem.

93po 2 days ago

i would hope my manager wouldnt see this as irate employeeS but rather one employee trying to be controlling by forcing another one to bark a response like a trained dog when they've made it clear what their boundaries are for early morning communications. allowing communication boundaries between employees is a pretty basic tenet of treating them with the respect humans deserve

  • giarc 2 days ago

    I try to explain to the one employee that is fine to have the expectation that others say Good Morning, but it's also fine that the other employee doesn't want to engage that way. Both things can be true and right at the same time. She doesn't adjust her position and still thinks it's a requirement.

rufus_foreman 2 days ago

>> the other employee says she isn't in the headspace to be greeting people early in the morning and would rather get settled at her desk

Uh-oh. Sounds like somebody's got a case of the Mondays.

rsynnott 2 days ago

Quite frankly this sounds like something from The Office.

  • giarc 2 days ago

    There are many things that basically could be a game of "True Situation vs Scene from The Office"