A workplace is nothing like school, and you don’t have to remind your coworker when the “homework” is due tomorrow.
When we were in school, we felt a sense of camaraderie and responsibility for our friends. We enjoyed doing homework together and studying for exams in groups. If your best friend were bad at math, you would stay up all night with them to study for the test they were dreading, and they would have done the same thing for you for history, or whatever subject you struggled with.
At the end of the day, it was a common goal for all of you to get through school with the highest GPA, and you were willing to help each other along the way so that everyone would get to the finish line.
In the office, things don’t work the same way. Sure, you have a team and coworkers, and it is in the best interest of everyone involved that work gets done as fast and as well as possible. But it is not one’s responsibility that their coworker gets their tasks done, and there is not really any sense of camaraderie between everyone in the office.
Adults should be able to get their job done without the help of their coworkers, and each is responsible for their own tasks and deadlines.
Still, the employee below wanted to give their coworker a heads up when they noticed that she still hadn’t completed one of the tasks in the project. But the coworker didn’t appreciate the help and insisted that she got it covered. So, the employee let it go, and when it was time to submit the project, it was clear that the coworker did not complete the task she insisted she didn’t need to be reminded of.
After handling the aftermath of the missed deadline, this coworker decided to blame the employee for not reminding her of the tasks again. Suddenly, this coworker thinks “teamwork” is all that matters, and is mad that she was basically left behind.
Author: Kayitsi.com
