R:P

Dear Guys-at-Work:

Can we at least agree that the next time you decide to have a clash of egos during meetings, you could at least have the decency to keep things between yourselves (hereinafter referred to as “the interest parties”) and take your arguments offline so that the rest of us (“the non-combatants”) would not be caught in between and start wondering if we are forced to take sides?

Particularly so when the interest parties/combatants happen to be higher ranking than the non-combatants. Please, please, please, for the love of God, don’t do anything to wreck the morale of the other staff, especially when we work in an environment where every little soul matters to the others.

Maybe that way, we could keep the recidivism rates of MCs and urgent leave in check, and maybe, just maybe, despite differences in opinions and what not, we could at least pretend we actually like one another.

A little more self-restraint, leave the egos at home, and think of others before self, please?