(Written in the spring of 2002)
- The definition of a good associate naturally depends on the place where you work. If you happen to have a job, where you can do a lonely work during night time, then you don't have to mind about other peoples or the colleagues. But, because not everyone are this lucky, then in some point you have to accept a job where you have to interact with other peoples and that's when the problems start.
- In my opinion the problem isn't the "other" associates, the problem is you. Usually people get irritated by some immaterial things. Like how someone talks, how someone dresses, what kind of haircut or hair color someone might have. Could there be anything insignificant than that, to get irritated in your working place? A place where you are not suppose to live your whole life, or there is no need to tie close relationships with others. I think that the meaning for job is that things will be done. Working place is not meant to be like a plastic Disneyland where everybody has so wonderful and roguish time. You can have fun and tie those close relationships after the clock strikes 4:00pm.
- Yes, of course it would be desirable that when you go to work in the morning, you wouldn't be blasé that again you have to see those same people, those that you have been seeing the last twenty years, from Monday to Friday, from 8:00am to 4:00pm. But the basic question is that how do you react to others. I know, it would be interesting for a change if the whole world would be full of copies from the most interesting person in the world, you. But do you really think that you are so charming and wonderful person that you could tolerate yourself every day? At least I couldn't endure if the world would be full of copies from my wonderful personality.
- In any case, the world is full of different peoples and you just have to get along with them, no matter what. Your own attitude and how you behave affects the fact that how does other people react to you.
- So the point of this text is, that everyone should pay attention to their own actions and take responsibility for those things that they do. In a simple form, think about themselves, not others. This might avoid the problems that arise now and then in the work place and in other places too.
- It's not a question about "other" people. Not a question that what "they" do or what "they" don't do. It's a question that how do you react to these things? Do you immediately start to talk shit about them, behind their backs of course.
- Well, maybe all of this is just some utopia, a fantasy that will never come true, anywhere. And in any case, I'm not a perfect associate either...
