Posted by Marcelo on October 07, 19101 at 14:47:42:
May be that you have experimented during work time that you couldn't get closer with all of your co-workers, but you probably have tried to do this in search of a good work atmosphere.
I used to have many co-workers when I was working at Shell Company in the Sales Office. With one of them, Juan Perez, I couldn't be kindly because I felt some kind of skin reject with him.
One day my boss said me, "From now on, you are going to do your daily work with Juan Perez." Had you ever feel that in your life?, imagine this situation; I felt that my boss was sending me to the front line, he was sending me to work with "the enemy".
With many years of experience it seems that it would be a great choice, for a good work environment, to look forward for some important characteristics that your co-workers should have, like a good moral, a correct sense of responsibility, friendly manners and surely a good sense of humor.
First of all a good moral is the most important characteristic that should have a co-worker. When you work with a co-worker that lack of good moral he would probably make you a bad trick that push you to the edge of your career.
A second important characteristic that should have a co-worker is his appropriate sense of responsibility. One time I suffered this situation when I commend an important work to a subordinate. He past all day doing other things and he never finished with the task, and as I was the responsible of this work I had to finished it.
When you work in a company you depend on the work of others, so, to obtain the best of them you have to have friendly manners when you ask someone for something you need in search of your success; and this is the third important characteristic that co-workers has to have.
The four but not less important characteristic that should have a co-worker is a good sense of humor. You pass 50 % of your day working; imagine how could it be working with people that hate laugh or that refuse innocent jokes; if it is your case, probably you are now looking for another job.
As an advice try ever to develop and increase those important characteristics between your co-workers. If you try on, you would probably never feel that you are working with "the enemy".