I went to a meeting.
A large space, four or five hundred chairs, two or three hundred in attendance.
They all sat as far away as possible from the speaker.
Genetic predisposition?
It wasn't a seminar. You invest something when you go to a seminar. You sit as close as you can at a seminar. You're paying for whatever the speaker has to say at a seminar.
It was a meeting for work. Everyone was being paid to be there. And they all sat as far away as possible from the speaker. They slouched and squirmed and looked away or closed their eyes, they muttered to each other during the proceedings and they had nothing to say when the presentation was done and they had a chance to ask questions.
They just want out.
Genetic? Yes.
Our ancestors who survived all the hard times in mans existence were the ones who got out of harms way. They knew there was no one to bail them out so when they saw danger they moved on.
People who go to meetings at work see the area near the speaker as a dangerous place. He might talk to them!
That is how you survive, you stay out of harms way. Not everyone can figure this out so they need to be told once in a while. Even then a lot of them don't get it, recent events show us that.
I sat in the front row, three places left of center, by myself.
This is not about the Eric Hoffer book but he still might turn up from time to time.
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Sometimes in meetings, my imagination gets a little out of control, and I start to wonder: What would be the most inappropriate thing I could say or do right now? Something shocking, but not quite bad enough to get me fired.
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