As a working adult in the BPO industry, it has always been a mindset to me not to be too attached on the people I worked with. On my first job with Sykes, I befriended everyone that was on the same team as I was, so when they resigned or go on AWOL (Absence Without Official Leave), I got demotivated on coming into work. It was hard for me to surrounded by new people. I have this attitude that I don't talk to people if they will not talk to me first. And the new hires already have their own respective group of friends. So it has been really a struggle for me to open up with them. After just a few weeks, I can no longer endure the feeling of being left out, I decided to resign. This experience has been an eye opener to me that the real world will not adjust on your emotional feelings. I learned to distance myself to everyone I worked with.
This has been an ongoing attitude of mine for the last companies I got employed. I come into work, go home, repeat. Though, I communicate with them if it's work related but I didn't agreed to come any unrelated work invitation. I don't want to be too much attached and dependent again. Just so you know, in the BPO setup, every once in a while, we were being shuffled and transferred to different teams and have to change schedules. So it will just be useless to create a bond with your current team, knowing that you will need to say goodbye to them at some point. However, I was not able to maintain this belief of mine in my current workplace.
I am working here for 9 months now; my first ever work since I got terminated from my previous job due to pandemic. I can honestly say that the reason why I spend time with them outside work is because I just got out of a toxic relationship and wanted to enjoy. Anyways, since March of this year, I've been with this team and got really close to everyone. I attended team buildings, eat outs or just a normal get together and it made me really happy. But it's not always sunshine and butterflies as they said, just yesterday, I got the news that four of our teammates have been terminated due to performance issue.
That was the saddest I have been. I already build a bond to these people and it was hard for us to accept that the management only gave them 3 days to provide a certain number of sales. But then again, I still knew that it might happen. I may not be prepared but I had encountered it before. I just thought that everything happens for a reason and a little sacrifice is all we need to be at the place we were destined to be. I bid my goodbye to them, I cried so hard but still managed to tell them that it's just goodbye, not the end. Life must go on. My tears would not pay my bills.
Positively thinking, we can still schedule a get together once in a while. Not because we were no longer working on the same company, that doesn't mean that it was over for our friendship. Sooner or later, we will all be fine, slowly. Friendships are great but remember that you go to work to earn. Keep going.
This is my sister's article. I have been struggling to write anything so I gave her permission to post during the days I was supposed to be posting. This one is supposed to be for yesterday, but I fell asleep as soon as I got home and forgot about it.
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Ganyan din ako pero once na kinausap na ko,madali akong naaattached sa tao. Kaya kapag may hiwalayan na ganyan ang sakit,iisoin mo bakit?,😅
Pero life must go on nga. Hindi naman porket natanggal sila hindi na kayo magkikita diba?uoi can set it,panahon ngayon madali ng magset,chat chat lang eh. Gora na.