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Tips for first job | Office politics

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This is something I feel I need to work on to maximise my chances in the corporate. I want to do it without being a “chaatu” or harming others in the process if that’s possible

How to get good at office politics?

Frontend Engineer

Welcome to Confessions's Private Community

Lately it's been really hard trying to cope up with derogatory comments and people trying to pull you down.

I build/refactored some of our codebase and things go south in terms of performance at few places. 
I realised the mistake and fixed the performance bottlenecks that happened because of me in least time possible. 

But people still look down on me on and manager keeps passing hurtful comments about the incident every now and then.

Moreover there's worse happening fellow people start blaming you for the performance of code you haven't even touched. You are just utilizing some function in your codebase written by some other person.

I don't know how to handle all this and what should I do to avoid this? 
Mistakes happen, bugs go on prod, things can break but as far as once everything stabilise, we should move on.

How do you guys deal with Office politics.

Software Engineer

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

Seeking advice on how to grow at work, without having to butter up too many people. I have been struggling with this, because I feel too many people around are managing their managers, and using it as way to grow. My reviews and feedbacks have consistently been good, but I feel that for the output I provide, I am not growing as much, because of favouritism. 

Advice needed.

How to grow at the workplace without indulging in politics?

Product Manager

I have worked from home only till now, w limited interaction with my coworkers. Starting new job I'll go in-office for the first time. Need *serious* advices/tips/what to do/what nots etc. If it helps, it's an agency.

Going in-office for a new job for the first time - Advices/Tips?

Copywriter

Got a new job after being at my previous company for 3 years, and it's my first in office job in a while. Any tips to fight off the first day jitters? I'm pretty neverous, tbh.

Any tips for first day at a new job?

Intern

Welcome to Indian Startups's Private Community

Corporate/Startup culture that needs to be changed:

* Office Politics
* Favoritism or favors given towards an employee
* Micromanagement
* Explanations for every leave taken
* Glorifying Overworking
* Expecting staff to be available 24/7 
* Meetings that could have been an email
* Unsympathetic Layoffs
* Non Appreciating Behavior
* Credits due to an employee
* More than 3 rounds of job interviews

Non Negotiables at Corporates

Program Manager

I will go first, it doesn't matter if you really work hard on a project, in the end only result matter, no matter how much efforts you made for it

Lesson you have learned from Corporate

Software Developer

How to deal with office politics and bullying at office

Compliance Manager

Welcome to Software Engineers's Private Community

How do you deal with Office Politics as an Engineer?

Timely completion is better than delayed perfection!

read that again.

Corporate lesson learnt in 20s #1

2. Communicate even if it's a bad news. 
 3. Learn to show your work 😄 in mail or meetings

Senior Consultant

Consultant

Welcome to IT Company Discussion's Private Community

1. Build a home earlier. Be it rural home or urban home. Building a house at 50 is not an achievement. Don't get used to government houses. This comfort is so dangerous. Let all your family have good time in your house.
 
2. Go home. Don't stick at work all the year.  You are not the pillar of your department.  If you drop dead today, you will be replaced immediately and operations will continue.  Make your family a priority.

3. Don't chase promotions.  Master your skills and be excellent at what you do. If they want to promote you, that's fine if they don't,  stay positive to your personal.
development.

4. Avoid office or work gossip. Avoid things that tarnish your name or reputation. Don't join the bandwagon that backbites  your bosses and colleagues. Stay away from negative gatherings that have only people as their agenda.

5. Don't ever compete with your bosses.  You will burn your fingers.  Don't compete with your colleagues, you will fry your brain.

6. Ensure you have a side business.  Your salary will not sustain your needs in the long run.

7. Save some money. Let it be deducted automatically from your payslip. 

8. Borrow a loan to invest in a business or to change a situation not to buy luxury. Buy luxury from your profit.

9. Keep your life,marriage and family private. Let them stay away from your work. This is very important.  

10. Be loyal to yourself  and believe in your work. Hanging around your boss will alienate you from your colleagues and  your boss may finally dump you when he leaves. 

11. Retire early.  The best way to plan for your exit was when you received the employment letter. The other best time is today.  By 40 to 50 be out. 

12. Join work welfare and be an active member always. It will help you a lot when  any eventuality occurs.

13.Take leave days utilize them by developing yr future home or projects..usually what you do during yr leave days is a reflection of how you'll live after retirement.

ADVICE TO ALL EMPLOYEES :

Data engineer

Hey folks, I'm joining a company soon. Had joined my prev company during Covid and hence never had my actual Day 1 in "office-office" (Zoom life), so very excited for this new job. 
Interested to know your Day 1 experiences.

Day 1 at new Job

Data Analyst

Got a job but now got another offer at 80% hike. What’s the best excuse to leave the job?

Best excuse to leave job within a month?

Don't give an excuse, have an honest conversation. Believe it or not, Honesty is the policy, even in these times

UX/UI Designer

I always heard about the office politics but never faced. But in my current company, I got caught up with the petty dirty office politics.

Manager keeps his ass safe by not taking any actions. He’s also one of them though. People take complete advantage of his inaction and lick his boot to safeguard themselves. Behaviour takes u-turn when the manager is not around.

Mediocre behaviour and no intent to do better.

One of the worst experience of my life. Have to get out.

Office Politics derailed trajectory

Investor

Is office politics a perpetual thing at every workplace?

Human Resources

What do you think about office politics in mumbai

Hey guys,
So I'm a senior BTech CSE engineering student from a Tier 2 college in Karnataka and I will be interning at a Top MNC in Bangalore over the summer for 2 months. 

Any advice for me? As I will be entering the infamous corporate world as a new chapter in my life, I wanna know how the dynamics in corporate works and what I should prepare for. 

Thank you lads.

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