The Hello Game

One thing that I am extremely irritated about everytime I come into the office (oh, I now work in a shiny office) is the hello game. Everyone, everyday, has to say good morning to everyone. It's a real must. It's like a simulated nuclear reaction, as soon as one person meets someone, the hellos ripple through the office until there's nothing left.

Now, I know this may sound like a strange thing to be moaning about, niceness - but for some strange reason I have just found it to be particularily irritating over the las couple of weeks. It's like - why does everyone need to do that? I'm sure it would be better to be pleasant everytime you went and talked to them. Or if it just happened to be spontaeous niceness.

Maybe that's it. It's forced niceness. Once you're in the reaction, you're powerless to stop. You wouldn't want to be the person who doesn't say hello. That would be incredibly insincere!

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• Interestingly, there is a special category of "Morning Greetings" on Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Morning_greetings. That's actually quite sweet.
  
• Pic comes from http://www.flickr.com/photos/sibertekt/357691235/