Are you friends with your coworkers?

[concise]

If you can make friends at school, why can't you make friends at work?

 

[he_is_I]

If you can make friends at school, why can't you make friends at work?

Thats 2 different things breh. Its easy for someone to get u fired. Your relationships at work can hurt u more than they could at school. Not sayin u cant have friend's there but you gotta be cautious.

 

[concise]

Thats 2 different things breh. Its easy for someone to get u fired. Your relationships at work can hurt u more than they could at school. Not sayin u cant have friend's there but you gotta be cautious.

Bad friends in school can't fukk your life up?

 

[JT-Money]

If you can make friends at school, why can't you make friends at work?

Because in most cases your competing against these people for raises and/or promotions. When money gets involved all bets are off. I've seen plenty of friendships disintegrate after one person gets promoted over another. Or the person you thought was cool gets promoted and starts acting two-faced. I would rather it be every man for himself when it comes to trying to secure that bag. That way you don't get blindsided.

It's best to make friends at work early on in your career because you you'll eventually switch jobs.

 

[King Poetic]

at my current job, i would say we friends at work only, we don't hang out... they have families

years ago when i worked retail, me about 8 female coworkers would go out once and awhile....

 

[Gyasi85]

Rules of work are simple.

Be polite but not nice.
Keep to yourself.
Don't talk too much and share information about yourself. They should know very little about you and label you boring, which is good.
Never gossip, keep neutral even if you hate the other party.
If someone shares important information, record it and tell it to no one.
Never flirt back with female coworkers, no matter how attractive they are. shyt this is one is hard because there are some fine women who give you signals that they are open to the idea of getting smashed.
Punch out and gtfo there.

You follow this and you won't have any problems.

 

[Turbulent]

i'm barely friends with my actual friends

 

[Quiet Magician]

Eh.... I don't think this is the best advice if one is trying to move up the ranks, unless one is satisfied with being in a stagnant position.

You have to demonstrate that you are social. Many companies partially hire based off of qualifications but more importantly off of who they perceive to be a "good fit." Good fit being determined by asking the question "is this the type of person that I can go out for a drink and chop it up with and have things in common." Or "is this the type of person I can stand to be stranded at an airport for 10 hours."

Hard to advance nowadays without demonstrating social capital. Also, you get away with so much more if folks can vouch for you, which typically happens not on the job, but typically at after work or off the job functions. You can be mediocre or unqualified, but if you get it on well with your manager or peers, a lot of stuff (not all) will be overlooked. I see it all the time and personally, when I know I've dropped the ball on things, the close relationships I've developed with coworkers, helped them overlook a few things that should not have been overlooked.

Quite frankly, in today's working society, the attitude that many brehs have of "going in, doing the job, and going home" is actually doing more harm than good and is potentially keeping us out of advancement opportunities.

It's a game of strategy. We can spend hours at home on Madden or 2k thinking up strategy, but not apply the same thinking to real life.

Office politics is strategy to real life advancement.

Move up the ranks? nikka no one wants to move up the ranks, if you want a nice pay increase and a new position title you switch companies.

Read what I said. Be polite but not nice. What does that entail? It means keeping up with what is going around the office, understanding the social dynamics of how everyone plays off each other and blending right in. Having no enemies and a few acquaintances is all you need and then you bounce with those references. Company loyalty may have been a thing when your parents or grandparents were in their employment primes, but it isn't anymore.

There is no strategy, you are talking horseshyt. What benefit do I get for cozying up to cacs and asians in the hope that if something falls on me they have my back? Oh right you mean being a "nice"...fukk that. You can go ahead and fake smile, pretend to give a shyt about their boring dysfunctional families, nod your head as they talk about their shytty weeknd get togethers and listen to their stories that go nowhere but I came to work, then dip. Life is too damn short to pretend to care about people who you won't remember when you leave the company. I talk to my brothers once in a while then head on home.

 

[Gyasi85]

Eh.... I don't think this is the best advice if one is trying to move up the ranks, unless one is satisfied with being in a stagnant position.

You have to demonstrate that you are social. Many companies partially hire based off of qualifications but more importantly off of who they perceive to be a "good fit." Good fit being determined by asking the question "is this the type of person that I can go out for a drink and chop it up with and have things in common." Or "is this the type of person I can stand to be stranded at an airport for 10 hours."

Hard to advance nowadays without demonstrating social capital. Also, you get away with so much more if folks can vouch for you, which typically happens not on the job, but typically at after work or off the job functions. You can be mediocre or unqualified, but if you get it on well with your manager or peers, a lot of stuff (not all) will be overlooked. I see it all the time and personally, when I know I've dropped the ball on things, the close relationships I've developed with coworkers, helped them overlook a few things that should not have been overlooked.

Quite frankly, in today's working society, the attitude that many brehs have of "going in, doing the job, and going home" is actually doing more harm than good and is potentially keeping us out of advancement opportunities.

It's a game of strategy. We can spend hours at home on Madden or 2k thinking up strategy, but not apply the same thinking to real life.

Office politics is strategy to real life advancement.

Its soft c00ning but necessary for the Grand Hustle Friend up them CaCs in HR so when the fukkery come At least one of them Ofays will vouch for you.... Had some Fillipina bytch try and run me out the paint last week.... but HR hit her with the cuz Gyasi is client support and that dun sound like him You talk to them bout shyt you know damn well you dun care about They kids, trips to the cottage, Pets, especially dogs Watch they eyes light up. ..they all bigots till you start talking bout that Dog you lost 2 years ago and how u refused to feed pets Purina and just Raw Now they homies Every once in a while you got to let them know you still down for yours So i start cussin bout Kaepernick and fukk the NFL...not one of them CaCs will try me with that topic while im in the room

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

Had a coworker graphically detail to me some disgusting medical shyt his mom's was going thru and I told him



We ain't friends like that.

 

[Auger]

People at work talk too f'ing much

Gossipy

 

[he_is_I]

Bad friends in school can't fukk your life up?

Not to the extent as bad friends at work. We talkin marriages, income, reputation, future jobs.

 

[Rell Lauren]

Eh.... I don't think this is the best advice if one is trying to move up the ranks, unless one is satisfied with being in a stagnant position.

You have to demonstrate that you are social. Many companies partially hire based off of qualifications but more importantly off of who they perceive to be a "good fit." Good fit being determined by asking the question "is this the type of person that I can go out for a drink and chop it up with and have things in common." Or "is this the type of person I can stand to be stranded at an airport for 10 hours."

Hard to advance nowadays without demonstrating social capital. Also, you get away with so much more if folks can vouch for you, which typically happens not on the job, but typically at after work or off the job functions. You can be mediocre or unqualified, but if you get it on well with your manager or peers, a lot of stuff (not all) will be overlooked. I see it all the time and personally, when I know I've dropped the ball on things, the close relationships I've developed with coworkers, helped them overlook a few things that should not have been overlooked.

Quite frankly, in today's working society, the attitude that many brehs have of "going in, doing the job, and going home" is actually doing more harm than good and is potentially keeping us out of advancement opportunities.

It's a game of strategy. We can spend hours at home on Madden or 2k thinking up strategy, but not apply the same thinking to real life.

Office politics is strategy to real life advancement.

On the contrary. I just got a promotion because of that. Being able to come in, knock out my work and leave before five some days (we work until 6) is a trait that people have come to admire about me.

 

[Mensch Fontana]

fukk no I work with white people

 

[TEH]

Eh.... I don't think this is the best advice if one is trying to move up the ranks, unless one is satisfied with being in a stagnant position.

You have to demonstrate that you are social. Many companies partially hire based off of qualifications but more importantly off of who they perceive to be a "good fit." Good fit being determined by asking the question "is this the type of person that I can go out for a drink and chop it up with and have things in common." Or "is this the type of person I can stand to be stranded at an airport for 10 hours."

Hard to advance nowadays without demonstrating social capital. Also, you get away with so much more if folks can vouch for you, which typically happens not on the job, but typically at after work or off the job functions. You can be mediocre or unqualified, but if you get it on well with your manager or peers, a lot of stuff (not all) will be overlooked. I see it all the time and personally, when I know I've dropped the ball on things, the close relationships I've developed with coworkers, helped them overlook a few things that should not have been overlooked.

Quite frankly, in today's working society, the attitude that many brehs have of "going in, doing the job, and going home" is actually doing more harm than good and is potentially keeping us out of advancement opportunities.

It's a game of strategy. We can spend hours at home on Madden or 2k thinking up strategy, but not apply the same thinking to real life.

Office politics is strategy to real life advancement.

I agree I'm very social

But superficial af

I don't get people in my personal business

And I don't mix business with pleasure