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Originally Posted by GoodVibrations101
I agree that it is common behavior, but I Have been at this school for one year, and I have stuck out my neck for a couple of the employees in other ways. I think I'm the type of person who will be loyal to my co-workers and support them, but some of them do not reciprocate. I just expect more from a school where I've worked a longer time, and I have had more contact with the fellow teachers.
My boss himself is the problem, and he is vindictive and punitive, so he would blame them if they showed sympathies with a fired employee like myself. I know they are right to be afraid of being labeled, but there are ways that they could contact me privately without the principal/boss finding out, and none of them have privately emailed or called me to offer condolences. It is just insult added to injury. I find in the American workplace, the only people who will really be there for a person if they have a problem--firing, divorce, sickness--are their immediate family (if they're lucky).
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Yes
That is unfortunately is the case. The sooner we accept that reality, and stop controlling or changing it, the less we will suffer.
I have lived in the US majority of my life and I have gone through grief, cancer, homelessness, and more... yet, noone offered support. Not even a tiny 'how are you?'
It is not their fault. That is all they know. I have suffered from lack of attention while I was going through chemo and homeless but it was my fault to try to control others' actions.
We cannot make other people care for us.
Life is difficult for them as well.