When I entered a company haphazardly some time ago, it seemed to me that I was going to get hired. However, there was no training given or mentorship given to me whatsoever, yet people there kept on talking about me making mistakes and holding back salary or promising some kind of financial security or protection whatsoever. However, it was tentative and not even carried out over the weeks.
I was intrigued by the fact that the company policy and mission statement (it’s a non profit group) was more about helping the environment and goals of the company with a very tightly knit attitude of cooperation with colleagues, mutual respect and working with a sense of duty and obligation. I had only one person half heartedly dump all this kind of talk on me so I worked without pay for some time. I was mostly a believer in the officially outlined mission statement and it was emphasized by a few other people (actually by some in only one department).
A while later, I’ve seen a few odd things happening hear and there. Such as people blabbing to the sub manager about mistakes that people made, throwing others under the bus, coworkers spying on each other to keep tabs on their secret career advancements or promotions, etc. I think some of them also consult the competing company to check personality profiles or details about others to get a competitive advantage in this group. What’s kind of worrying is that when I spoke to some people in the movie/marketing department who were longer in this field, they said that usually human rights complaints are swept under the rug, that they strip you down to almost nothing with the amount of service that you have it in you to provide, and that you would most likely be hurt in more ways than you can imagine. Some others also said that it’s not supposed to be an “idealistically fun” type of work because it’s just tedious labor.
I’ve encountered a few problems in the past and think that perhaps my main problem is that I haven’t really “cracked” the way the “game” has been played. If I knew the real state of office politics or how things actually worked, I wouldn’t be making the same mistake again. Yet some people from my department keep on emphasizing the mission and policy objectives again and again but I don’t see it happening or if I act based on those things, I screw up.
So what exactly do I do?
3 hours ago – 1 week left to answer.
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In addition, there are hidden office alliances that enable certain people who have done none of the hard work or getting into the difficult and dangerous areas to take credit for other’s ideas career advancement secrets or for management to provide them information about other members to serve their egotistical needs. They are allowed to cut corners no matter how much they violate the mission statement and they do the easiest jobs.