Mindful Doodles #183
This.
Words simply escape me.
Workers whose jobs include facilitating mediation for other people must use tact, diplomacy, morality and humility. Does the General Manager on the left display these qualities?
She’s in charge of organizing social activities for people in the building. She has acted in her capacity, to be a voice for a complaint. Aided by this excuse to encourage a communication between two neighbors, she thinks it qualifies as an arrangement for a social contact.
Its not a good idea to use a problem to initiate conversation but without a valid reason, nobody would be talking to a stranger, even if they lived in the same neighborhood. Now that there is a valid reason and its to the loss of the opposite party, the projected exchange is not expected to bear good seed to sow for a future friendship.
This is an anecdote and not a farfetched, abstract conversation. I learned from this comic that everybody who needs to perform mediation, should be required to attend a course to learn the necessary skills and strategies. Nobody is born a negotiator or mediator.