Why We Need People at Work
It’s tough to survive in corporate life if you don’t have someone who makes your day. It gives you a reason to wake up and look forward to going to a place that seems designed to keep you demotivated.
Wage labour is perhaps the most depressing thing to have happened to mankind. Yet, it has also given people the leverage to do bigger things, lift themselves out of generational poverty, and find hope in life. The method, however, is designed to kill you slowly. Not just your personality, but your hopes, your ambitions, and even your courage to take a leap.
In places designed to rob you of your happiness and will to live, you either need desperate circumstances that keep you glued to your desk, or you need someone who can help you tolerate the sentence. If you think about it, it’s the same mechanism you see in jails. You need to form bonds quickly, lest you find yourself unable to survive there.
There is a reason why office affairs are so common. Finding hope in an otherwise depressing environment makes you cling to that hope with all your might. You spend the better part of your week and month there. And if you have good company and low stakes, there’s bound to be a spark.
This is not about promoting affairs. A lot of good friendships also emerge from these situations. The point is that if you want to survive in a hellhole like this, you need to find someone who makes the place bearable, perhaps even fun on some occasions.
You will not remember how hard you worked there. Every time you think about your corporate office, you will remember the time spent with people. That special bunch of people.