Differences, Dogmas and Delusions

Perhaps, being unaware of human psychology and external influences, we oftentimes fail to realize our own fallacies or comprehend others’ cleverness. 

When you talk about human tendencies, it’s not easy to gauge intricacies unless you are medic in human psychology or know a little more on the chemistry of human emotions, dogmas, delusions, opinions, and temptations. Certainly, excess of any ingredient leads to something, deficiency of something causes abnormalities or combinations of two or more elements alters a human personality.

In a workplace, an employee who ranks high in position and is a multi-tasker, by some sort of expertise, carries an egoistic heart. His disparate behavior is obvious when he enters the office, he greets not his colleagues who are little less in age and position. Instead of helping and guiding others, he tries to maintain his dignity, with his own self-styled diplomacy and instructs others in a commanding way. What he's going to lose if he greets his colleagues? It will only speak about his fine etiquette, and after all, courtesy doesn’t cost anything.

You delve deeper into things, you will notice strange happenings or inclinations. 

Once, I heard a person saying that when he sees a particular co-worker he doesn’t feel like greeting him. Not that there’s any grudge or wrangle, but he simply dislikes greeting him because he feels uneasy when he sees him. Strange, isn’t that?

Let’s talk about some senior employees who behave like silent spectators. Although, they are well aware what little enhancements can mend the organizational culture, but they keep themselves detached. Rather than socializing and sorting out problems of colleagues, they prefer to keep their mouths bolted. Ask them a thing or two, they'll hesitate to respond back or give them a bold greeting, they'll put an aching smile.

What a say about those managers who deem their departments like their little dominions. To safeguard their seats (positions), they willingly manipulate information or make unfair presentations to please their owners. 

Why would a person alter numbers to make a balance sheet look profitable? The logic here is that if the financial performance is up to the mark, there’s possibility of getting projected incentives. While giving presentations, instead of speaking about cost-cutting strategies or work efficiency, managers take pride to express their usual tasks as great accomplishments and expect accolades from others.

Some are so adept in the art of flattery that even polite people cannot imitate them. In the presence of their masters, they work so willfully by nodding their heads and putting extra hard work. And, in their masters’ absence, either they nickname or abuse them.

And then, vain gossiping in workplaces is like an itchy disease. Workers who are addicted to gossips do it anywhere, anytime. It’s not only women who gossip, even men too gossip more sneakily over their phones or in groups during break-times. Gossiping openly, with laughter and mincing words, is like a pleasure. If they gossip, they feel cheerful and if they abstain from it, they show up their faces as if they’re having stomach-pain.

You have to believe how false rumors fly everywhere like buzzing flies. Someone hears a little about something somewhere else. That broken news goes elsewhere and gets twisted with more seriousness and tone. What then? 

A simple possibility becomes like an authentic projection, a discolored doubt turns out to be a reality and an elegant gossip becomes a story. In a manner, it becomes impossible to find out from where the rumors originated.

Some clever employees, even after knowing factual happenings, pretend as if they know nothing. On the contrary, with stupefied innocence, they try to ask others either to get some more information or expose their ugly temptations.

So, to work diligently and loyally, we have to know a little about human psychology and how the human chemistry works in forming behaviorism in workplaces. If not, silence is a best remedy instead of harboring troubling headaches. What it means is that when you know nothing, then neither say nor think anything, and do that what you are supposed to do. Nothing more, nothing less.