Every day I sit in meetings and cringe as I see people step into land mines. Its not like i work in the army, but anyone who has worked is aware of office politics.
Now its not like office politics is lethal it can just cost you your job or get you rolled off a project.
And since in today's economy jobs are a dime a dozen who cares. Lets just say what we have to say and show everyone how deserving we are.
So you went to the meeting. It was pointless. Your colleague was just saying stuff that wanted to make you poke your eye out. What do you do? You correct your colleague and very aggressively because well, that's what every job article says you do to make your boss notice you.
So now that you've proven you know your stuff, your intelligent, and showed up that stupid colleague of yours. Now what?
Ill tell you now what. Now people think you are argumentative and actually bond by bitching about you.
I have actually done this. I have managed to become bum-chums with my current project manager just by bashing a colleague that upstaged her in a meeting.
Even though my colleague is more experience than me, he now reports under me. Why? Office politics. (you have to play politics at work if you don't your not important enough yet.)
So that's what i will write about everyday. All five working days because believe it or not most people are just naive and put themselves in a spot to be the scape goat ( there always is one).
And then they wonder why they were overlooked for the promotion which they deserved.
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