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The people who matter in office # 16: The disillusioned!

2020-05-08T07:04:00.381Z


LE BUREAULOGUE - Every Friday, Le Figaro gives you an appointment with a "cliché" character from our entourage who poisons or brightens the corporate world


“The more peoples advance in civilization, the more the state of the wave of passions increases; for something very sad happens. The multitude of books that deal with the man and his feelings, make skillful without experience. We are wrong without having enjoyed; desires remain and there are no more illusions. The imagination is rich, abundant and wonderful, the existence poor, dry and disenchanted. We live with a full heart, an empty world and, without having used anything, we are disillusioned with everything. ” If, in 1802, in the Genius of Christianity, François-René de Chateaubriand never spoke - of course! - not in office life, his diagnosis nevertheless applies well to some of our most disillusioned colleagues. Those who never show the slightest enthusiasm and whose last smile dates back to the victory of the Blues, in 1998.

Read also: "The people who matter in the office" # 15: The procrastinator!

Who is the disillusioned? Very often a rather mature colleague, employee of the same company for some time already ... Too long, perhaps ... Time, precisely, has been right for enthusiasm, desires and illusions who had led him to "sign" for this professional adventure: the disillusioned now knows all the wheels of his business: his hypocrisies, his games of dupes, his dialogues of the deaf, everything that makes the salt of certain careers ... The disillusioned man no longer wants to pretend. He also does not want to change his daily life: what good is it? In meetings, he nods permanently, is not opposed to anything. He lets it go. In the corridors, he drags on. He also sighs a lot.

Unwillingly, the disillusioned person can have a detrimental effect on their colleagues and make them feel lower. It may also happen that his bon-bonisme turns grotesque and provokes a slight amusement. There is no age to be disillusioned: one can be very young and very quickly if the gap between desires, what had been promised "on paper" and reality is abysmal ... In the film The Winner , Benjamin Braddock - freshly graduated - is disillusioned with the very idea of ​​joining the workforce. There is a funny technique to measure the critical disillusionment of a colleague: if, at the beginning of July, you wish him to have a good holiday and if he replies: "I would have preferred to leave in August" or "Bof , anyway, I'm going to have a rotten time " , you're dealing with a very nice specimen. But he is not wrong: at least, in the office, we are almost certain that it will not rain.

For the benefit of this column, do not hesitate to share your own experience of important people by writing to qperinel@lefigaro.fr.

Source: lefigaro

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