‘My eyes rolled so far back in my head it gave me a headache’: I carpool with two coworkers. One refuses to take turns. With gas prices up, is that fair? The Moneyist explains the Gaelic term 'mé féiner' to this letter writer: quantanamo
Dear Quentin, My two co-workers and I go to lunch once a week. I offered to drive. We each pick the lunch place and sometimes drive about half an hour away to try something new. It’s an hour of driving most days. With gas prices so high, I told them it would be fair if we take turns driving.
What should I say to this? It only seems fair we all do our part. It’s not like it would make sense for me to have her drive herself and take two separate cars for only three people. My coworker’s point was, “You are driving anyway; it doesn’t hurt for me to take up a seat.” Secondly, these are coworkers you enjoy spending time with, so you’re in that gray area between genuine friendship and colleagues you like. Would you be spending time with them if you did not work together? Maybe, maybe not. But you are constrained by the fact that you see each other five days a week, eight hours a day.
No one likes a “mé féiner,” as we say in Gaelic. That’s someone who only thinks about themselves. Beth needs to realize that when she sits back and refuses to be a team player, others end up picking up the slack.
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