Some people become so bored with their jobs that they begin to engage in game playing. Most of you know about game playing by this time. Transactional Analysis, a phenomenon I refer to as a layman's approach to psychology, describes games as ways of structuring time. They can be either conscious or subconscious. In other words, we can be either aware or unaware that we have gotten ourselves caught up in games. But that doesn't make them any less real.
They can be played by clerks and secretaries in offices. They can be played by teachers. Even psychologists and psychiatrists can find themselves engaged in them. It would not be unheard of to find anyone, say mail carriers, involved.
The problem with games is that they leave no winners. Everyone walks away from games with bad feelings. The victim, of course, feels the put-down he was meant to feel. But the perpetrator never quite gets the desired satisfaction much less the high he is seeking. Best for all concerned that we all try to avoid starting or getting hooked in games.
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