Your older sister, Beth, once sent you a postcard from her job in Washington saying, among other things, that she was feeling al
ienated at work. You believed then that she had a feeling of belongingness in work, good control of the job, and joy in her position. Now that you have read this chapter was your understanding true or false?
The word alienated specifically refers to a social condition in which someone feels left out or distanced from a group of people in a work environment. Judging by the context of the sentence that begins with: "You believed then..." tells me that I had a wrong understanding of the social condition at work of my older sister Beth.
