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Old 02-05-2013, 11:41 AM
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Dude u need to wake up.

There is office politics and manager bias anywhere you go. Unless you go some brain dead no future job where everyone bochap and wait for retirement, there will always be colleagues who will kiss ass and back stab you for their increment and promotion. We are talking $$$ here, not airy fairy feel good talk co.ck.

You are either in the game or out of the game. Bursh up your political skills and compete effectively. There is no point self-fantasizing how much better you are compared to your colleagues. The fact is they play the political game better than you and by default they win you lose.

You are dealing with real people with real careers and competition for monetary interest, this is not playground summer part time job you play play while school holiday. You need to up your game. Your next job will be the same, you will not like most of your boss and colleagues, but you better make sure most if not all of them like you.

Once you clock up enough experience, you will know that people who chit chat friend friend you are the most dangerous. They are even worse than those that openly bochup you or see you no up.

Cannot handle it my advice is you go join some stat board, at least guarantee paid monthly for the rest of your life.

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Originally Posted by Lincoln88 View Post
Manager bias is the worst thing to tolerate and I personally experienced it before when I was working in McDonald as a school holiday job. Purposely don't let me learn new things and forever make me do the lobby kind of work like collecting trays, empty the rubbish then the other new staffs get all the chances to advance. Later when I reported this to the restaurant managers I felt great when I see those manages get scolding, I quitted after that.

How you explain to your next interviewer about your short stay in the company you left?

I'm actually thinking of leaving already but staying on because right now I'm just outcast but not so bad to the extend that I felt bullied or got bad remarks. In fact I gotten feedback and they feel that my performance is good just that the way I communicate to them is weird thus not able to click with the team.

Just because I don't click with them then I'm consider weird. I never encounter such thing before in all my previous work place, I just feel that our character and topics just doesn't fit that's all and not because I'm weird.

There are so many different kinds of people in this world and definitely there will be people you can't get along or just couldn't chit-chat with but I don't see them as weird.

Seem like I'm so much younger but actually look at things wider than them.
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