Office Politics

Sometimes working in an office just makes me sad. What's been going on here lately isn't unique. The boss retires, people play for power, there's a little reorganization, and things continue on. What makes me sad is how feelings flare, how people act out when they feel threatened, and how everyone has an agenda. Maybe it's just that I try to live in some state of feigned ignorance that people really do like each other and really are in it to do a good job above all else. Then again, I even notice a bit of panic in myself, as I wonder how the organization will emerge from this period of transition and what my place will be.

Then I realize that I'm just over a year from graduating, and I too may be moving on in the not too distant future, towards paths unknown. I don't know whether it's the uncertainty, or the sadness at watching the friends I have made scatter, but I just feel melancholy.