PRIVATE LIVES ARE SEPARATE FROM PUBLIC LIVES?
For many years I have been puzzled as to why people
think high profile public personalities will be different at home than in the
workplace. So, I hear things like, “Oh yes, he lies to his family, but that is
different. They will be an excellent public officer, MP, Prime ministers,
Director etc..”
I have had people say to me, “We need so and so to
come and clean for us.” My answer has been, “But their house is so dirty!” “Ah
yes”, comes the reply, “but they will do an excellent job for us.” Why do
people think like that?
So, a particular person is unfaithful and lies to his
wife and family … but that is their private life? Now we are referring to their
public workaday life, and this, and they are different. Really? Why do we think
any human being can compartmentalise life that way? They are a single human being, not two
characters. It happens to me in the current workaday world. People say “so and
so has had a difficult time at home, but that is their private life now they
are at work.”
Do you not think that home will not affect your
performance at the workplace? Of course, It does. I can usually tell with my
fellow workers when things are challenging outside of the office. Why? because
it impinges on their work performance and attitude.
A particular PM was unfaithful to his erstwhile wives.
I am sure he had to tell lies to cover his activities before the infidelities
were made public. However, never mind, we are only interested in his public
life. Of course, in time, it seems he has been telling lies to his work
partners also, as well as the country at large. What a surprise?
Oh, and I wonder whether he and/or others told us lies
about Brexit.
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