Of Office Flirts & Scandals

Do you flirt at the office? Do your friends? Do others, your colleagues?



Sorry, not really accusing you or anyone. Not really saying or making a statement that people flirt at your office or workplace. Yet, it happens.

Reader's Digest, in its September 2011 issue, listed 10 places where it's dumb to flirt. Guess what, the workplace is at no 10.

Well, don't get me wrong. I'm not saying that since the workplace is at no 10, then it's okay to flirt at the workplace since it's not no1 or no 2. Hello, which earth are you on?

To have the workplace listed is already a signal that the office is not the place for you to have some "fun". And if it's dumb to flirt at the office, I would conclude that those who flirt at the office are dumb!

 

It has been shocking to me to find out that some people have no shame to get involved in office flirts and scandals. Of what they say and do, I think they have no respect for themselves nor a drop of dignity in themselves. To think, see, hear or observe what they are willing to do - to bring themselves down to among the lowest rung in the moral ladder - I just couldn't fathom it. How could one disgrace oneself to that extent? How could one do such evil, such unkindness to one's very own self?

The office is the place for me to work, to earn a living. And I'm not into flirts, scandals or even affairs; be it at the office or anywhere else. Not really trying to brag or to declare that I'm the good, pure, untainted soul. Just to make known of some of my life principles.

 

SRK (that's Shah Rukh Khan, if you're wondering) is one of the few celebrities who is also against scandals and affairs.



SRK

I understand that the world is not perfect. Our world is also not perfect. And we are like an injured bird - hurt, helpless, trying to find a shelter or a loving heart to nurse us back to perfection, to make us whole again. And then, there are temptations around. In our quest for compassion, we often fall for temptations.


I think we have to be wise, and to think of others. People in a scandal or affair are often being selfish and self-centred, only thinking of their own unhappiness, heartaches or imperfection. The scandal or affair is their way to make themselves happy, content, satisfied or even complete. Do they ever think that they're harming others -the people who love them, and the people whom they love? Everybody around them is affected by the scandal or the affair, that's a fact.

 

I would end by saying, avoid affairs and scandals. It's dumb anyway.