Why is it so hard for people to act like respectable grown-ups?
Growing up, I went to an elementary school that was… how do I say it nicely… struggling financially. Even though it was a relatively good school (I mean, you can tell by how I turned out, thank you very much), it didn’t have a lot of money to invest in things like a working AC in most classrooms, or desks that didn’t have 20 years’ worth of gum stuck to the bottom.
This meant that in every classroom, we had about 4 chairs that were big enough, comfortable enough, and didn’t have some part of them broken. So, every morning, a class of 25 children would fight over these 4 functional chairs. Some respected the concept of dibs, others would use popularity to gain control of a chair, while some of us simply stayed out of trouble and managed with a chair that was either missing a leg or had no backrest. There wasn’t much to do about it, and since we were children, the wars over the chairs were honestly kind of fun. The teachers didn’t take us seriously, and we eventually made it work as a class.
Why can’t the same happen with actual adults working in an office?
Even though most offices are not as poor as my old elementary school, you are likely to find the same issues in them, including a shortage of comfortable chairs. If an office doesn’t have to invest money in something, they won’t, which means they would let employees sit on broken, faulty chairs until there is absolutely no choice but to replace them.
But even though the employees are not at fault for working in an office with no comfortable chairs, that doesn’t mean they can’t be civil towards each other when it comes to the distribution of the “good” ones. The story below, revolving around two coworkers fighting over one office chair, proves that some adults can be as childish as an actual kid, creating workplace disputes and resorting to petty revenges in order to get what they want.
Author: Kayitsi.com
