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Personal Narrative-Face Conflicts In The Workplace

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I have a difficult character. Since I was a child, I've always been warned by my relatives and friends that it is not the most appropriate thing to say always what you think, but I can't help doing it! Many times, I had to challenge conflicts just because I expressed my thoughts, because I do it in a very direct way! Sometimes I'm quite brutal, and the worst thing is that I don't even realize it. In my opinion I'm speaking normally, maybe not so gently, but in a decent way. Often people react in some manner, communicating touchiness or drawing a strange expression in their faces, but some persons instead don't give you any clue of what is happening in their minds. They keep everything inside themselves, harboring frustration, and ultimately …show more content…

Why did I draw this conclusion? W. knew facts about my personal life, from me or from other people in the office. He could see my personal belongings, such as my car, that in one of the e-mails the sender threatened to wreck with a hammer. In other messages, the writer made statements about conversations that we had in the office with other colleagues, or even just me and W. Making Assumptions. What am I assuming, and why? W. was much older than me, and had degree in law. So, that was clearly an underestimated position for him. I guess he was already frustrated before knowing me, because he couldn't find any suitable job and had to apply for a position not related to his career. Then he came to my office and found a much younger and perhaps unkind person curating his job because more experienced. That was probably why he started hurting me trivially. Interpreting Reality. Why have I understood the situation this way? The temporal proximity between the threats and the arrival of W. couldn't be a coincidence. I begun interacting with a new person, we had some disagreements, and we often left discussions unsolved. In my opinion, I had a problematic co-worker, which was to be taken care of, but I had no personal aversion to him as a human

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