Time for some general culture evaluation.
Basically, this batch of junior are mostly quite simple minded. They don’t think much when doing things. Although they do more than they think, it becomes a problem when human to human communication which require considerable amount of message processing. Message can be verbal ones and non-verbal ones. Thinking in this case, is in terms of processing messages to help determine other’s emotion and meaning of message. This skill is known as Communication skills, measured by EQ.
The experience I get from these fellow juniors was that, frankly speaking, like those I experienced in my secondary school. It is not the age that matters, it is the mindset. Simple mindedness, a better term for ‘Shallow mindedness’, is the culprit. I foreseen this situation from this same batch of my secondary school juniors. They are mostly out-going, fun-loving ones yet tend to take this fun for granted. It could be because they had too much ‘protection’ from their immediate predecessor batch, us, the powerful [perhaps over-powered], radical batch.
The major evidence their working attitude can be seen in many day to day experience, as well as in serious work. When they are happy and comfortable with the people and environment they have, but that they do it happily and willingly. Whether they did a good job or not is another thing. If they aren’t happy, the process of doing the work will be a messy and unpleasant one. Guiding and motivating them can be difficult.
As mentioned, they lack the skills of communicate, the consideration to accommodate and the urge to compromise, on the never similar situation and people. To put it simple, they simply want fun out of their work, not pride, not commitment, not service, nothing else.
To add to these, the ignorant to the surrounding people further worsen the working atmosphere. They have no ‘auto repair’ mechanism installed in their brain to deal with communication break down. They choose to run away from their fault by consciously or unconsciously, normally by doing any one of the following:
- Backstabbing - Critics behind the back, gave up explaining
- Nonconstructive Complaining - Emotional bugging without attending to problem
- Pushing Responsibility - Finding ways to get off the ship and see it sink
Not only that, the urge to be justified as right, makes them seems ‘Political’ to many. Politicians are minorities, who has their own views, and want to influence the majority to their own views. Out of no where, a power sphere is form. Like I said, they are rather simple minded. I doubt their intention to secure influence to accomplish any power hungry goal. But because they are simple minded, they unconsciously fell into the trap of such hidden power struggle.
Now you see, all the above lump into one big problem. I wouldn’t want to waste byte linking them up one by one here. You do the inference.
I have nothing against their fun seeking ideals, but my advice for them would be, to start realising what they want, their emotion, their intention, themselves. Working relationship wise, be more sensitive to your surrounding, every actions and words counts. Learn to apologies and be less egoistic. Winning face and losing respect from fellow workers isn’t worth a deal.
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