I’ve been thinking about this for quite some time. Specially recently with the country heavy into recession. We work hard – or at least some of us. We do our job and we do it well – again at least some of us. So, when I was posed by my family about possible vacations to take this year I had to pass due to the possibility of coming back and not having a job.
Do I think it could happen? YES!
That is why I, personally, try to do everything humanly possible to show my supervisor I am a valuable employee. Going from that thought though I went on to that I spend more time with my co-workers than I do my own family.
That’s pretty sad isn’t it?
It’s true though. Think about it. You work on average 8 hours a day = 40 hours a week. You come home by 5 and get to spend time with your family for a good 4 hours, if that depending on your commute.
We are spending not just way too much time at our cubicles but we are seeing our co-workers more than own family and yet we don’t even know them. I remember at an old job I worked for a firm that I did their accounting for. I was probably there for a good 4 years and there were employees there that I didn’t even know if they were married/single/kids/etc – and the firm only had 20 people at that location.
It was absolutely amazing. I worked with these people day in and day out and knew nothing about them. I would go out to lunch with them and joke and laugh but knew really nothing about them.
At my current job though I’ve changed that. I’ve made every effort to make sure that I do know them and even if I don’t really like them (hey, it happens) I know I’ve made an attempt to know them better.
In all reality our jobs our co-workers are our second family. Their highly disfunctional and sometimes chaotic and you don’t want to be around them sometimes but you have no choice. How is that not like a family?