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Over the past seven and half years, I have been very fortunate to avoid being a member between the various office "alliances" at work. I work as a IT middle manager in NYC for a luxury goods company. I prefer to stay independent and being myself than be full of myself and start petty fights. Better to be neutral and a hard worker than a troublemaker.
It never cease to amaze me how certain people with little/nothing in common can join forces to hate a person at a whim.
Warehouse vs. Security
Accounting vs. Warehouse
Accounting vs. IT Department
Customer Service vs. IT Department
Everybody vs. Human Resources
Not to sound naive or even dense, has anybody ever seen a "rivalry" between department ever end peacefully and for the better? I'm starting to think they never do.
I've been in many office environments and it never ceases to amaze me how childish and petty supposed 'adults' are in the workplace. I have always entered into a company with the politics already in place, and whilst there, the office politics keep on like business as usual. I think that only until the troublemakers leave a company, that's when the politics end - or until some other ahole replaces them.
If you can stay above the fray of office politics and keep it professional, then you are winning "half the battle." As a manager dealing with people, obviously that is harder to do. All places have their fiefdoms and turf wars. I never could avoid it, anywhere I had worked.
If you can stay above the fray of office politics and keep it professional, then you are winning "half the battle." As a manager dealing with people, obviously that is harder to do. All places have their fiefdoms and turf wars. I never could avoid it, anywhere I had worked.
You ain't lying about the turf wars and fiefdoms.
The closest I have to a turf war is between me and a bunch of lazy, uncooperative Russians in Marketing/E-commerce who believe they're superior and can boss anybody around at will. Other than that, it's been neutrality for me.
The closest I have to a turf war is between the world and a bunch uncooperative Russians who believe they're superior and can boss anybody around at will.
I fixed that for ya. Accommodating is not in their vocabulary.
Well most people working these jobs are uncreative, and hate the fact that they could do nothing more than get a desk job. To make it interesting, it turns into what you've witnessed.
Unfortunately, many upper managers have caught on that encouraging interdepartmental strife is a way to strengthen their own positions. Look at these mandatory "10% under performance" standards that are being implemented across the corporate America. It destroys teamwork and stifles innovative risk taking.
Some people go into the workplace with enough emotional baggage for a tour group and intending to act on all of it there. I have an estranged sister who was like that, and when she had to get a job for the first time in her life after her divorce she went from one job to another doing the same thing at each one. She would immediately single out someone to be her enemy and start campaigning against them with all the bitterness she could muster, calling me up all the time to rant on and on about them. There are lots of people out there like her, and I've not had a job yet were there was not at least one workplace bully.
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