Yesterday I was told that I would have to deliver some bad news but events today prevented me from delivering it. In the end, the news was delivered. But what made today bad was not that the news was delivered but the behavior of those around me.
I don't think I have been around people whose actions are as childish as the people I've been around today. It's like watching vultures feed on a piece of raw meat where the person getting the bad news is the piece of meat. I get that some people like drama, but there should be a common level of decency extended to everyone. That was not the case today.
People were going out of their way to find out who bad news was going to be delivered to. I mean they actually STOPPED what they were doing to figure this out - like it was a game or something. All the while de-humanizing those who were getting the bad news. Seriously? Who does this stuff!?!? It really was some of the worst display of human behavior I've ever witnessed.
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