R.E.S.P.E.C.T.

Ok, so I just got into work and I'm a little miffed. I have a "reserved" desk at work. It's the one and only perk of having worked here for over 7 years...at the 5 year mark I earned my own desk. It's nice to have - to be able to leave a framed picture here on my desk, to leave my own stuff here, like a pen cup, etc...you know, just basic stuff. The woman who sits directly behind me has a "reserved" desk too, but hers is designated as a medical desk - meaning that everything is set for her - the height of the desk itself, the monitor, the chair, etc. She has a placard on the front of her station that says medical desk, the same as I have one that says reserved desk - which in lammens terms means "Don't sit here".

Well, we come in this morning and on B's desk (the medical desk lady) someone over the weekend took her sign and wrote on it "Guess what, too bad, there is no more medical pods - live with it". I was floored because her desk was issued and set up for her by our HR department. They also took B's mouse from her computer. I then sit down at my desk and see that someone has done the same thing to my desk and they also decided to take my scissors out of my pen cup and start cutting up random things on my desk. that's along with strewing my sh*t everywhere. It looked like a typhoon hit my desk.

Ever since the B Brand staff moved into our center and we merged, it's almost like we're dealing with elementary kids here now. They (most of them) have 'tudes up the ying yang and obviously no respect for anyone whatsoever. When we were all A Brand here in this center, we were one big family - we all respected one another and made things go as smoothly as we could here. We worked together. Now it's almost as if we're working against each other. A Brand versus B Brand. It really pi$$es me off that in this day in age, people have no respect for anyone else and it's all about *me* and what makes *me* happy. I'm so sick of this. I run into this everyday. With the B Brand rivals, with the customers I deal with, with people in general. Nobody says "Goodmorning" when you walk by now, nobody says "Have a nice day" etc. What is going on with today's society has the custom of common courteousy gone out the window? Is this something that no one instills in their children anymore?

I'm thankful that my parents taught me the morals and values that they did and that I'm the person who I am today. I have respect for others and a general concern about people. If I hear that someone is ill for example and I don't even know them, my heart still goes out to them. This morning I had to stop by the post office to mail a package out to Carrie. I held the door open for someone, I approached the postal clerk with a "good morning" and said my pleases and thank-you's. I'm just wondering if her next customer of the day (I was the only one in there at the time) would do the same?