The Condescending Workmate

I believe you have ever met some of those. Yeah, those employees who think they are better or more important than everybody else in the office.

They feel that by greeting you or co-operating with you in accomplishing a certain piece of work, they will have done you a great favour. They feel that you should feel overly privileged if you are lucky enough to stand together with them or to share a word with them at close proximity.

When they extend their hands for a handshake (with people they least regard), their hands are as limp as limp could be! It makes one wonder why they ever extended their hands in the first place.

They are always in a hurry. This is so especially when they espy people they deem to be ‘the worthless fellows’ afar off.

When they pass this group, they look aside and turn their noses in a manner aimed at suggesting that they are disgusted to be sharing the office with you. They just wish that the office was full of their type!

The reasons for this condescension by these workmates are, but not limited to:-

1. They feel they are better educated than their colleagues in the office.
They ask themselves, “How can a Masters holder like I work in the same space with a Certificate holder?”

Though job descriptions are totally different, they are not satisfied to share the workplace with people who are not as well qualified as themselves.

2. They feel that, because they have direct access to the boss, the rest of their colleagues can simply go to hell on foot. They simply don’t need their colleagues (so they think).

3. They feel that, because they receive commendations for their work, then they are better than those guys who don’t receive the same. This, in the long run, causes them to adopt the behaviour of these other kinds of employees

Do you have these kinds of colleagues at the office?