I learned many years ago that it's easy to manipulate colleagues with how you approach them. Some want you to be supplicant and know less than them; others want you to be dynamic.
Conversely, one colleague uses different voices to draw sympathy. It never works on me.
And another female colleague just hefts her chest around and flutters her eyelashes expecting men to fawn over her. Problem for her is: I don't like her personality so her cleavage would never have helped.
Office Politics and the Quiet Discipline of Leadership 🧭 | https://bit.ly/3Od80zB | Office politics is not something to fight or avoid. It is something to navigate with clarity consistency and integrity 🧭 | #Leadership #OfficePolitics #Integrity #CareerGrowth
The Art of “The Fog”: Why Your Colleague is Suddenly Interested in Bowling at 12 PM
By The Corporate Sage (Satire Desk) #CorporateHumor #ProtectYourPeace #OfficePolitics #ViralUncle #WorkLifeBalance Welcome back, fellow cubicle philosophers and open-office survivors. I am The Corporate Sage, your resident workplace anthropologist who has spent far too many years observing the exotic mating rituals of deadlines, the migratory patterns of blame, and the elaborate…
🌟Behold, a thrilling "revelation" from 14 years at Google: it's not about writing code—it's about surviving the labyrinth of office politics and coffee chats! ☕️ Who knew that engineers need more social skills than technical prowess? 🙄 #ShockingNotShocking
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Africa: Signs Your Boss May Be a Narcissist: [Namibian] Research suggests that you're more likely to find a narcissist in the corner office than just about anywhere else. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TPCGDX #Narcissism #Leadership #WorkplaceCulture #MentalHealth #OfficePolitics
In today’s installment of "British Humor 101," a tribunal has ruled that calling your boss a "dickhead" is just another day at the office 🎉. Apparently, #professionalism now includes playground insults, and your HR department is just a suggestion box for your best banter 🤪.
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/sep/04/calling-your-boss-a-dickhead-is-not-a-sackable-offence-tribunal-rules #BritishHumor #OfficePolitics #WorkplaceBanter #TribunalRuling #HackerNews #ngated
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#LetterOfTheWeek
Forum: #Bullying reflects deeper issues in #families & #society
"in 1993, #Denmark made #empathy a required #school #subject. It has helped children aged six to 16 develop #compassion & #social #awareness.. “Why should we expect perfectly harmonious relations among #children, when #adults themselves struggle with #conflict & #officepolitics in the workplace?” Indeed, children often mirror the unresolved conflicts & #emotional pain of adults around them"🧐🇸🇬
https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/forum/forum-bullying-reflects-deeper-issues-in-families-and-society
Office politics wearing you down? Rise above the fray. Focus on the work that matters. 🗂️ #RiseAbove #OfficePolitics
Unspoken Currency of Office Politics: Leverage and Sanction Between Coworkers
https://graphthinking.blogspot.com/2025/05/leverage-and-sanction-between-coworkers.html
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No one gets a manual for navigating office politics. Stay true to your values. 📘 #OfficePolitics #TrueToYourValues
Just as a suggestion, please don't let Ego get in the way of improving business processes and applications. I just came out of a meeting where someone who had a great idea was shut down by someone else only on the grounds that the person's idea was better tan the person shutting them down. I've seen this type of attitude ruin more good ideas and progress than anything else. :( #business #workenvironment #officepolitics
“The room reeks of old, dead terror—and a brooding malevolence, as if the instruments of torture are merely biding their time. Just you wait, they’re saying.”
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This fall, the intense, frustrating, just plain bad days are outnumbering the good ones and I don’t like it.
Goodness me, this brings back all sorts of unpleasant memories of office politics bullshit before I started working from home 25 years ago.
Office politics dragging you down? Stay neutral and keep your eye on your own goals. 🎯 #OfficePolitics #StayNeutral
Ok today just heard another bunch of idiots talk about Web3.0 and Mastodon as if they even know what it is… why am I surrounded by tech idiots who pretend they know everything. #officepolitics #faketechies
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I have medical instructions to not grind my teeth for two weeks because of a dislocated jaw joint.
The office is making it hard today.
We're doing some department infighting about what amounts to change money, spending more time on escalation email threads than the amount we're fighting about. 🤬💩
Still no milk in the office apart from the carton I have stashed at the back of my drawer. I wouldn't mind another brew, but that means passing two desperate people who won't buy their own but will want mine. #OfficePolitics 🤣 🥛🐄
