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What to Do About a Jealous Co-Worker

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By lindagoffigan


How to Get Along with Jealous Workers

Jealousy is an emotion and emotions are subjective meaning that there is  no cure all if you think that a co-worker is jealous of you.  Emotions are inwards feelings that are only privvy to the person perceiving the jealously.  Having written the inate qualities of jealously, the person who feels that the other person is being jealous of them needs to take a good long hard look at themselves and see if there is any basis for the jealousy.

A person may feel that because they dress a certain way that others are jealous when the feeling may just be a perception of a self of high esteem that carries thoughts of jealousy. Having a high self-esteem of yourself is great but when it overflows into thinking that people should be admiring your looks, clothes or whatever, means that you need to take a second look at yourself.

The only way that you would know if someone is jealous of you is if you ask them.  Such candid questions are rarely asked or even confronted except maybe in a heated argument.  But in a day to day conversation it would be inconceivable to ask someone "Are you jealous of me?"  The best advice is to have yourself as the go-to person because surely you know everything there is to know about you.  Isn't that the reason why you are thinking that people are jealous because you have a look or something that you think that they want?

When dealing with emotions, it is best to write the emotions down and make it a tangible part of you.  Do not write about the other person because you do not know what the other person is thinking.  You have a pre-conceived perceived notion that someone is jealous.  Either you have caught the person with a certain look on their face or you have acclaimed greatness that you know everyone else would like to obtain and can not and therefore they are jealous of you.  A long loaded sentence but it covers all the bases of jealously.  Back to the sheet of paper with your emotions.  Now that you have the emotion tangible, write why you think that person is jealous of you.  On the next column write why you should be concerned about what that person thinks about you.

If you list more information in the second column then you are in a relationship that you need to let go of and get out of.  Jealously is an emotion that Shakespeare has written quite a lot about and he wrote more tragedies than comedies.  It is suggested that you distance yourself from the other person so that you can move on without the unneeded distraction of another persons validating something that can not be proven.



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