It was funny. Today at work we discussed an interesting topic. I was talking with my co-workers about my first few days at work. It all started when I was having a heart-to-heart with a friend and she admitted to me that she and I both have such strong personalities…and she didn’t like me when she first met me.
Not because I’m some unlikeable person, but because we are both strong personalities and she and I both sensed the threat. (I didn’t think I’d like her, either, when I first met her)
We brought this up to another member of the office (who happens to have hired me) and we all laughed because every one of us felt a different feeling when we first met than we feel now. We’re super comfortable with each other at this point, but when judging a book by it’s cover, we reacted quickly in a way that might have kept us from forming a friendship.
I think this happens often, and if you’re not put into a work situation with others, and there’s really no reason for you to “like” the person you feel threatened by, then you tend to stick with your first feeling.
I’m probably overthinking this, but if you were forced into hanging out with a few people you don’t like, do you think you’d end up liking them?
well, said in this world. A hard thing to over come yet so necassary when in the work force. It was one of thos things that dragged me down years ago. Lady J