“…there is something wrong in human nature….”

Empathy

• Understanding another person's feelings by remembering or imagining being in a similar situation.
• Appreciation of another's problems and feelings without experiencing the same emotional reaction. To be distinguished from sympathy, which is usually non objective and non critical.

Now it is a common world with many common and shared experiences, so it is fair to assume that any situation you find yourself in can be related to another in some form of fashion, whether that is themselves personally or through a friend or someone they know who has been thru a similar situation…
Flip back to reality, barely an incident in my recent memory that I have related to anyone, other than a close friend, has been able to be empathised with. Sure they speak the same language and understand the situations and ramifications of the event/incident, but people I have discovered, much to my sadness just don’t care about anything outside themselves or a 3 metre radius.

Take a workplace in a large company, professing to be in touch with staff needs and an understanding open door policy. Having, as all companies do, a Human Resources Department dedicated to staff management relations.

I think more to the point, we would all like to have a Humane Resources is likely a more desirable name which staff would feel comfortable and confident going to…

Case in point. Monthly sales targets are set or forecast on previous years data and results. So why, if conditions have changed and the market has shifted would you put more pressure on the staff to do 20% more that was expected last year with less. No wonder the people I speak with at work list symptoms akin to depression and various anxiety disorders. But when you are worth less the 30 seconds to sack for not towing an impossible line, then really that starts to affect your self worth. I see it all around me and with Christmas here… it is all worse.

Obi Won kenardly keep up!