Do you ever forget that your co-workers are actually people with lives outside of work?

LMAO I love this post. Some people are VERY careful about making sure that there is no overlap between work and personal; some places try to be very invasive of your personal life (e.g., the California Silicon Valley places which try to make it very easy to live most of your life there, at work...).

Do you think that this is because of a strict-ish sense of strata (supervisor vs. the supervised) and that there is a reticence around hierarchy which you absorb via the royalty/commoner aspect of being raised British...? I.e., does that fundamental thing in (high?) society affect all manner of relationships which one sees as essentially hierarchical and therefore some mirror/type of the royal/common split?

I have had both people I have gone out of my way to avoid, outside of work, and wonderful people, as supervisors.

Good question.

It's always a little mind-blowing to see two worlds collide. I try to realize that even the biggest asshole at work probably has someone at home that looks up to them...or perhaps the happiest person at work has sadness at home. It's hard to look at co-workers as fellow humans...but I try.

It was seeing your teacher in the grocery store during high/middle school.

Umm. Ms. Brown, what are you doing buying eggs? You're my teacher!

Sometimes, it depends on how much I connect with them!

Haha, shoulda been like,I took pics mwahaha

Yes it can be at times.

😂