Office Politics: I Hate Them
So I came in to work this morning only to realize that my profile reset on my computer. It’s a pain in the ass when this happens. So rather than wasting my time fixing it when I really could care less, I jumped over to the internet and away I went.
I ended up watching this video from The Onion:
Study Finds Youths Don’t Follow Office Politics
I Could Not Agree More
I think the whole idea of “office politics” is hilarious. Honestly, who gives a sh%t what happens at the office. If so and so used to date the guy in accounting, don’t tell me about it. Let me sit in my cubicle and surf the internet in privacy.
I don’t want to be invited to the company picnic because honestly, I have better things to do with a Saturday then spend it with the people I already see too much throughout the week. What? There’s going to be games and prizes? Woo Hoo, I can’t wait to win a “VIP Parking” spot. Now I only have to walk 400 feet to the door instead of 600.
Those People That Talk
There is nothing more annoying than listening to people talk in the background. My home away from home (aka The Cubicle) happens to be right by a walkway where people like to linger all day long.
Did you hear Jim and his wife are having problems? Or how does so-so afford to go on all these vacations, I swear he’s gone every 3 weeks!
Please, for the rest of us, just keep these lame thoughts to yourself. We have work (or lack of) that we need to do.
How do you feel about office politics? Or what I like to call Office Shannanigans?
Posted on: August 15th, 2008
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I have to deal with the same crap everyday. I hate everyone I work with because all they seem to care about is petty work stuff. They even have the nerve to ask me how I manage to still have vacation time and talk crap behind my back because I take time off. Apparently they are too dense to understand the complex math behind PTO time – if you take time off, it gets deducted; if you hardly take time off, it accrues (like magic) into multiple days off. WOW
I get that all the time. They give us PTO time to use, and some people prefer to accrue it and use it all on one vacation. I prefer to take 3/4 day weekends and take mini-trips. For some reason, this is too hard to grasp for some people that think I am using more vacation time than I have.
haha nice post about office politics.
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It really depends where you work. At my previous employer, the holiday/vacation/sick time was crazy sic! Even as a brand new employee, you got 10 paid holidays, 22 paid vacation days (that’s 4+ weeks off), 12 paid sick days. It was no wonder that about 1/3 of the office was never there on Fridays due to vacations or sick days. A lot of times, the people I needed to speak/meet with were out on Friday, so I couldn’t complete my job…so I’d just leave early
…and might I add…who gives a shit whos birthday it is? Why do people send out a lunch invite every time someone has an effing birthday ? And why does it turn into a 3 day long chain email that you can never really be ‘removed’ from, no matter how many times you bloody request/demand/threaten!?! *whew*…on a separate note ; Great blog! I heard from a friend about this site and it is thoroughly entertaining…and very informative on get the hell out of Phoenix for the day…trips.
Yeah, I guess it depends on the office, but where I’m from, outside my immediate team, office politics equals power tripping. It really sucks because it means dealing with older people who have been around long before you were born and having to live with their pompous attitudes just because they’re older and you’re younger. Not to mention that they’re pretty insecure about themselves, thus their attitude.
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I think that you confuse office politics with petty gossip. Office politics is a far more dangerous and serious phenomenon. It’s about people banding together to promote their own interests, with temporary alliances and betrayals, not unlike in “real” politics. This often leads to epic battles between factions, where the losers find themselves being skipped at every opportunity for a raise or a promotion, while the winners get to pick out who fills every management position in the company. This is a very common phenomenon for instance in branch offices of large corporations, away from the eyes of the upper management and stock owners.
I am a victim of such political games myself, I had to quit a company because I ended up siding with the losing side in a conflict.
You can easally tell who hates the workplace the most at the end of the day. Who is the one to race out the door to their car and flies out the lot like a fighter pilot in a Tomcat? Where I work, it’s me! At your workplace, if you get a glimpse of that person on his takeoff, you get to know who REALLY hates office politics.