I worked at a couple of places where I dreaded going to department meetings. Going to those meetings was like getting sucked down into a black hole. It was all doom and gloom. The meetings were a litany of grievances. The negative forces in the departments drained the energy out of you. Instead of running my usual three miles in the afternoon, I ran six to sweat out all the negative energy. What a difference when I was a member of departments where people really cared about each other and worked to help each other. Life is better when we care for each other and help each other out.