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Thinks s/he gets paid by the post
On another board I saw some postings about people complaining endlessly in their work envirenment. Another take on the complainers is that this may be their style; I call it the "Culture of Complaint". I remember in the Navy a lot of folks had been recruited from high school because they didn't know what they wanted to do. They were cannon fodder for the recruiters. Then when they were in the service they knew what they wanted to do-they wanted to get out! The primary way to relate to others was a continual level of complaint, the CO, the food, the weather, the wife, whatever. Anyone who presented themselves as happy was considered nuts or at least a little weird. Yet these guys would not take actions to remedy issues that might have been resolved and commonly reupped.
So I got to understand it is just their style. I now see this in different commercial and govt operations. My wife is a teacher and there is a whole subset of complainers. I am smart enough (or lucky?) to have found a place that is generally a positive workplace (NASA) and I love being in a place where coworkers want to be there.
Is/was your workplace actually bad, "just" a place with a culture of complaint of a pleasant place to work?
How about after retirement? Is it more or less common? Do you find yourself surrounded by complainers or found a way to distance them or tune them out? By that I don't mean folks with legitimate problems, just an attitude problem?
So I got to understand it is just their style. I now see this in different commercial and govt operations. My wife is a teacher and there is a whole subset of complainers. I am smart enough (or lucky?) to have found a place that is generally a positive workplace (NASA) and I love being in a place where coworkers want to be there.
Is/was your workplace actually bad, "just" a place with a culture of complaint of a pleasant place to work?
How about after retirement? Is it more or less common? Do you find yourself surrounded by complainers or found a way to distance them or tune them out? By that I don't mean folks with legitimate problems, just an attitude problem?