Sometimes, we do not have too many choices especially with the people we have to interact with every single day. So, how exactly whould you handle a situation like this?

It would be helpful to understand the personality of your co-worker. What exactly causes you to not have any positive mutual feeling towards this person? It is helpful to avoid jumping immediately into conclusive stereotyping. It could be that your co-worker is undergoing some serious tension in his or her personal life that results to that person’s negative behavior in the office. Getting into a deeper understanding of things will not only help resolve the problem but would relieve you off any stressful feelings towards your co-worker. Once you have achieved this, you have the option to discuss the matter with the person concerned depending of course on the gravity of the situation. If the tension between the both of you are really petty and could be foregone, then it would be best to just leave things as they are. But if the person is causing straing to your reputation or creditiblity in the workplace, it is wise to bring up the matter to him or her as soon as possible to avoid any further damage and to deviate from things that could the both of you at the risk of getting your jobs on the line.

There are people who naturally encloak themselves with negative vibes and it is not easy to get along with this bunch. It is even inevitably unhealthy to one’s social psyche to be around them especially in the workplace. Sometimes, a person’s productivity can be entirely affected when there is a poor work relationship among peers, One way to address this problem is by practicing maximum tolerance just to maintain the acceptable level of harmony and neutralize any tension that could take place. Eventually, these people will just grow tired of being miserable and hopefully start interacting better with the “happier” work bunch.