Why am I not liked at work?
If we take away sleep time, we will notice that work takes up most of a person’s life time. 10–12 hours a day, a person is at work or on the way to it. Therefore, everything that happens during working hours has a great impact on a person’s mental and physical state.
If in our everyday life we can choose people to communicate with, then in a work team we are forced to communicate with everyone, regardless of our preferences. Work is work.
But this forced communication often only exacerbates people’s sensitivity in the process of interpersonal communication. Therefore, “hot” and “cold” wars in work teams are not uncommon.
About half of my clients turn to me specifically as a psychologist and career consultant, and with questions about conflicts at work.
People in consultations often complain about the unbearable psychological situation in the team. Mobbing by other employees. To build psychological fences in communicating with them.
And it is clear that spending many hours of a person in such a “poisoned” atmosphere has a very negative effect on the general condition of a person. It begins to collapse. At the beginning psychologically, and then sometimes it comes to physical health problems.
Finding the causes of such situations is a very painstaking work, requiring a careful and in-depth study of many small nuances.
And as strange as it may seem, often the source of such problems turns out to be the clients themselves.
For example, in the process of analysis, they suddenly begin to realize that in their manner of speaking, very often there are
a) sharpness,
b) indignation
c) raising your voice to your interlocutor,
d) familiarity,
d) neglect
f) the desire to “push” the interlocutor
g) rudeness
and many similar, small and not very, but very sensitive, for others, nuances.
Because of all this, a person in a work team is quickly secretly classified as “toxic”, with all the negative consequences for him.
Therefore, you should always understand that often a person at work is hurt not only by WHAT was said to him, but also by HOW it was said, and sometimes WHEN and WHERE and TO WHOM it was said. Some people may “swallow” something in private, but overreact in front of other people, not wanting to “lose face.”
Perhaps you yourself experience similar feelings when you are treated like this?
At the same time, I have to admit that understanding the true causes of work conflicts is not easy for everyone. After all, it is much easier to blame the people around you for all the mortal sins than to start changing something in yourself.
But those clients who begin to work on themselves and change their harshness to friendliness when communicating with colleagues, as a rule, although sometimes with surprise, begin to notice positive changes in the attitude of others towards them.
