Tuesday, September 02, 2008

Personal vs Professional relationship

Recently I have been thinking about this subject quite often. I have been watching my colleagues to observe how people behave in different situations. The subject becomes more important when you are with same people at work and also at home.

The most common phrase which most of us would have heard is "Do not get you personal relations into professional work environment." But the big question is, is it easy doing when you spend 24 hours with same people around?

Think about a situation when you are getting ready in the morning knowing that you have an important meting to attend in the morning. Since you are staying with other colleagues you are bound to travel with them. You do all your efforts to be on time for the meeting but your roommate is lousy and not understanding the importance of getting to the meeting on time. Won't you be upset on the person for this attitude? Won't this make an impression in your mind about the person? And, won't you carry the same impression along when you are dealing work with this person?

These are some of the common questions I usually get confused with. How can a person change his personality based on the situation? If that's true then the person has 'dual personality' syndrome which is much more dangerous than anything else.

The only thing I can think of getting around with this is to learn ignoring people behaviours based on locations. Meaning, at work I would expect the person to be more focused on what he/she is doing, whereas at home I can be little lenient. So this would mean I have to be dual natured, which I don't how how dangerous could it be :)

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