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Personal Relationship with coworkers (Ch 6)
A few months ago, I received a chain email. It displayed a series of silly sentences intended to make me laugh. One I recall said something about only keeping in touch with people who have an email address. At first I laugh but then I stopped because I realized that it was true. I was shocked. I had been ignoring my friends who did not have an email address, I even lost touch with some of them. It really make me sad. For some strange reason picking up the phone was not really something I would thing of. In parallel, as the authors of the book state, I noticed that my social and personal relationships with coworkers were increasing (page 143). I was becoming more friends with people I worked with and less friends with people that I did not work with or people that I could not connect with via email. I tried to reverse this trend but eventually I accepted it. I guess it was easier.
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Yes, you're right. It's much easier to maintain relationships with people we work with. It's likely because we see them almost everyday. Another factor is that there will always be something in common - the organization. Being a part of the same organization almost forces people to get along and it's inevitable that we will be close to those we work with everyday. In addition, it's also more convenient to be friends with people at work. For me, I know how important it is to network and build professional relationships so I make more of an effort. I would not make that same effort otherwise.
I have found that even when I think of calling an old friend I decide that I would just rather send an email to them. Sometimes I am not in the mood to talk on the phone but I would still like to check in. I think it is our generation’s equivalent to letters sent by mail. Everyone always says that email is less personal than a hand written letter but I believe that it is just as personal, especially when reaching out to friends that you have not spoken to in a while. While hand written letters are nice especially for a thank you, an email is a little more interactive because you can get a more immediate response and you don’t have to call. I have found this to be quite beneficial to keep in touch with my friends in other time zones it is hard to catch them at a convenient time for both of us. So once and a while I will still call a friend to check in or write a nice card to send in the mail but I think I can often get the same point across, that I am thinking of them and wanted to check in, with an email. And I think it is just the nature of the office that you would become closer to the people that you interact with every single day whether that be in person or virtually.
It's true that we live in an age of technological convenience. Mail has been supplanted by email, then by IMs and texting.
As you stated, I've lost contact with those that don't email frequently. It kind of makes sense that the people you communicate with the most are the ones you'd associate the closest with. In this spirit, I've found that some of my closest friends are those that I communicate with on a daily basis via IM. I've thought about whether they're my closest friends BECAUSE I talk with them so often... or do I talk to them so often BECAUSE they're my closest friends. It's a toss up - a little of both. :)
I'm a bit different on the work aspect. I'm friends with people I work with and hang out from time to time, but keep more distance. Guess I subconsciously strive for some work/life separation.
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