She's strong but she's exhausted

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Hypocrite

Always claims she is an introvert -when she has so many friends and always the first one to initiate a chat with them. Takes pride in saying that she loves joining her friends parties or going to the maill with them

Says that she doesn't like people taking advantage of other people's kindness. But when her boss doesn't mind her most of the time being late coming to the office, or having frequent sick leaves or going under time, she's mum about it

Often says that she doesn't care too much about her looks but always points out what is wrong with another person's looks

Acts sad that she has no more time to spend with her daughter but when her daughter asks to go with her when she goes to the mall or gatherings with her friends, she gets annoyed and tells her daughter that she will just be a nuisance

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Reminiscing MJ

https://youtu.be/T1dAQN5QcZU

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Pity party

I was beginning to wonder why she has a lot of friends (well according to her) we don't hang out outside the office and I only knew her because we were officemates so I have no way to confirm if she really has a lot of friends. She was a bore to talk to always talking about how she is too tired to get up in the morning or get out or talk to her daughter. And when she talks about her daughter its always a complaint how her daughter is asking her to buy this and that. When you try to talk to her about your life she is always too eager to interrupt to say how her story is same or worse or better than hers. Its as if you are always in a competition with her. You can't also talk to her about your husband because her face would turn so bad that you would think she ate something sour or bitter. Its because she has separated with her husband for many years now and though she always keep denying it you could tell that she is still bitter about and has not totally moved on.
Then after sometime I began to realize why she has so many friends. Or she chats with a lot of then thru social media. I think they like talking to her because she makes them feel how lucky they are. That they are lucky because their lives is not as miserable as hers. She would talk about how her friends buy her things, foods, pay for her movies, dinner etc. Then I realize somehow I did that too with her, I gave her a planner for Christmas and when I had extra cash I treated her for snacks.
So I am beginning to think that what she has are pity friendships. People feel so bad for her because she is a single parent who rents a small apartment with her parents and 1 sibling. Her husband left her for another woman which according to her own words "after I did everything. She shifted to an IT career late so she is earning less with people of her same age. She is rated poorly in her performance reviews at the office. Her male friends ( if I remember it right she had 2) proposed a booty call with her which she declined but she still remains chummy with them.
She vehemently denies it, but she likes the attention. Because when people who rarely talks to her suddenly talks to her you can her face light up. That is also why I think why men in the office like teasing her. Because she always has a twinkle in her eye when a man talks to her. I even told her that I have a hunch that the guy he has a crush probably also has a hint about her feelings. Because one tome she was telling him how her daughter's gums are infected and yet she is smiling ear to ear.
I pity her because I feel that she wants to feel special. But unfortunately I have no time for such drama.

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The grass is always greener

There is a cliche that the grass is always greener on the other side which says so much how people will never get contented with what they have.

In my previous company, people always complain of stress, having long hours at the office, barely allowed to work from home, demanding bosses and clients. Management would often comfort us that at least we have the best benefits and perks than other companies. Then people would answer in whispers that its not what matters if you barely have work-life balance to enjoy those.

In my current company, the bosses are advocates of work-life balance probably because they came from the country that is often named as the happiest country. They would allow people to go work from home even on the mundanest reasons sometimes even if you do not have a reason at all. Asking for emergency leaves are given like candies in a candy store so we know that oftentimes some just say they have an emergency at home when they need to go off work and just forgot to get approval beforehand. People can freely surf the net including social media sites even at the sight of the managers. But still you would hear people that they want to leave because of poor monetary benefits and perks.

Thus, I rest my case.

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What motivates us?

There is an old adage: “Choose a job that you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life,” meaning that if you enjoy your occupation, work doesn’t seem like . . . well, work. Some research suggests that this isn’t necessarily the case (Daniel & Esser, 1980; Deci, 1972; Deci, Koestner, & Ryan, 1999). According to this research, receiving some sort of extrinsic reinforcement (i.e., getting paid) for engaging in behaviors that we enjoy leads to those behaviors being thought of as work no longer providing that same enjoyment. As a result, we might spend less time engaging in these reclassified behaviors in the absence of any extrinsic reinforcement. For example, Odessa loves baking, so in her free time, she bakes for fun. Oftentimes, after stocking shelves at her grocery store job, she often whips up pastries in the evenings because she enjoys baking. When a coworker in the store’s bakery department leaves his job, Odessa applies for his position and gets transferred to the bakery department. Although she enjoys what she does in her new job, after a few months, she no longer has much desire to concoct tasty treats in her free time. Baking has become work in a way that changes her motivation to do it. What Odessa has experienced is called the overjustification effect—intrinsic motivation is diminished when extrinsic motivation is given. This can lead to extinguishing the intrinsic motivation and creating a dependence on extrinsic rewards for continued performance (Deci et al., 1999).

 Source: Reading Material for edx course: UBCx: PSYC.4x AP® Psychology - Part 4: How Behavior Works

Obnoxious people

"This is an important concept for obnoxious people: selective niceness. This guys considers himself to be nice in the specific, but not in general, that is, he's nice to certain people when he wants to be, but most unpleasant and difficult the rest of the time and he feels good about it"
- from What Would Machiavelli do? By Stanley Bing

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