Archive for October 5, 2014

It’s hard enough dragging your feet to work, worse still, most of us spend at least a third of our day each week slogging away in the office.

What do you need to do to lessen the dread of going to work? You need to know the following types of colleagues:

1. The Laugh-A-Minute Colleague
These people are generally harmless and you wonder how everything comes across as funny to them. You have to admire the optimism these colleagues possess. Little wonder with these characters around, even the coffee from the pantry smells heavenly. Life is not just good with the Laugh-A-Minute Colleague around - it’s often insanely happy.

2. Mr. Do-It-All
Don’t you get frustrated when things do not go your way? Mr. Do-It-All is possibly the nicest and most helpful person around in the office - until you find another Mr. Do-It-All in the same office that is. They will offer to help you, rarely turn you down and to put things simply, when you are pulling your hair out at work, you need Mr. Do-It-All. Just don’t abuse him.

3. Partner-in-Crime
You need a partner-in-crime wherever you may be maybe especially at work. Not necessarily to do the bad stuff or punk others but this is someone who will stick together with you. Every meeting you come out from, this colleague will share your opinion and will stick it through thick and thin with you. In some sense, he/she is your BFF and confidante at work.

4. The Friend Colleague
When you start treating your colleagues as not merely colleagues but friends, everything changes. You share tidbits about everything that’s happening in your life and work. Your workplace becomes a gathering, a hangout of friends working on projects together. Work doesn’t feel as much of a chore. Meeting friends definitely beats going to work, isn’t it?

5. The Friend Boss
The most important and also the hardest to find. Why so? Every boss can be a friend. It’s the getting there that’s difficult. You don’t want to come across as bootlicking nor do you want to come across as fake.

There is no sure way how you can build a trust and friendship with your boss except to be genuine with how you treat people and the boss. If you bootlick or are fake, it’s always going to show. So, if somehow you have a boss as a friend, like the above point, work will be better.

The Monday-through-Friday, nine-to-five is a pipe dream.

For employees in “traditional” jobs — office jobs with set, weekday hours — today’s status quo of ever-connectedness means that work often creeps into personal life (and vice versa): We often find ourselves taking personal calls at work, or sneaking peeks at an oh-so-urgent Excel file on our phones in the middle of family movie night. And for employees without a set schedule — surgeons, entrepreneurs, entertainers and countless other dedicated professionals — the delicate balance of personal and work life is even more precarious.

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