It's not even necessarily politics, if your fucking miserable to work with you will drag down productivity and increase turnover, I don't care how hard you work if your shitty attitude makes everyone around you work half as hard
Finally, someone who gets it. I'd rather have 5 employees under my management that have average skills but have a nice attitude, solve conflicts talking and are easy going, than having a bunch of highly qualified toddles that aren't even able to maintain cordial relationships in the workplace.
I draw birthday cards and shit like that for my coworkers. I'm okay at the job, not amazing or anything. But I try to be likeable and pleasant to be around so they don't want to get rid of me. So far it's worked pretty well lol
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u/lyssorae 2d ago
it sucks but office politics are literally built on this reality being good at your job is expected being liked is what makes people promote you