What's that all about?!

Not that I want to bitch about this, but the problem is I find that there is really something really wrong with what I am going to tell you...

Okie, here goes:

1st April a new colleague joined our department, well, she is not exactly new, but she just transferred internally from another department, and the following week, another new colleague joined us...then what follows are what I felt is not appropriate...the same thing that happened to me previously happened to them! I totally can sense that they were being isolated or ignored! Let's name them N and J...when N joined us on 1st April, there was not even an interaction happened with her, so I just started talking to her and she asked me how to order a stamp etc, I just told her what I know and tried to make her feel like she is welcomed...but I think she is perfectly fine with being alone lar, so hopefully she doesn't feel like she is not being welcomed...then for J, same thing happened, after being introduced to all of us, he was totally left alone, sitting in one corner, cause he really is sitting a bit away from us, but still...but I have been a bit busy and he was also busy so I just let it be, then when one day I was not as busy and saw him at his desk, I just went over to talk...asked him if he felt isolated, he never actually said anything and said that he is okay but then I told him I felt the same thing too then we started to chat...

Anyway, my point being that why do they keep people at bay? I have never been in this kind of situation before, in my previous 2 jobs, when I first joined, all my colleagues did was to welcome me by chatting with me, asking about my history and etc...all these chatting although a bit unnecessary to some people, but I stil think that it is really useful as a tool to welcome someone to your big family, you can't expect people to feel welcomed if you just ignore them and never talk to them right?

Then on Friday, one of my colleagues wanted to order McDelivery for lunch, all of us agreed and I had to abandon Alicia (sorry yea Alicia)...so I went over to ask J if he wants to join us for lunch, he said okay so we proceed to order...then the colleague who is taking the order whispered to another colleague, asking for J's name! I was so shocked! Hello, he is already with us for more than a week and you still don't know what is his name?! It just shows that you totally don't bother to get to know your colleague! I was a bit pissed, hopefully J didn't realise it coz the colleague who asked for the name was back facing him...I am really ashamed that we are in this helping profession yet we are not being what we are supposed to be! I am not trying to be a saint here, but I just feel that if you can't even treat your peers right, how are you supposed to treat your clients right? Maybe I am wrong, but to me, it is totally unacceptable to be ignoring someone...but what else can I say? *shake head*

Last words: It's just beyond words!