If you have a job in a fair-sized office and you get promoted, here is how to handle your new caste problems gracefully.
Continue at first to accept invitations to the homes of employee friends who now are your subordinates, but reciprocate only with group invitations. Then don't accept at all.
Also, you will no longer associate with your old gang during coffee breaks - you are always "too busy". They will have to understand you now have a different role in the company.
If you have a family, then you may give your wife more leeway in disengaging from the old circle of peers. After all, she is not as savvy as you are regarding the corporate rules.
Break away gradually, but eventually reduce all contacts to office hours. Recognize the simple fact of office life that the higher you go, the fewer friends you'll have in the company.
I guess you had some inkling of these things, but did you fully understand the brutal reality of this coded system?
One may ask what this code of behaviour is good for. And here is an answer: Take the story of the two office clerks who were doing a lousy job. They happened to be great friends with the manager of that department.
Now, the two clerks were directly responsible for the company's loss of $40,000 worth of business. And when their boss was asked to fire these men, he wouldn't do it. Therefore, he was fired along with his fiends, the clerks. That was the consequence of his failure to separate friendship from the demands of the business. - 15790
Continue at first to accept invitations to the homes of employee friends who now are your subordinates, but reciprocate only with group invitations. Then don't accept at all.
Also, you will no longer associate with your old gang during coffee breaks - you are always "too busy". They will have to understand you now have a different role in the company.
If you have a family, then you may give your wife more leeway in disengaging from the old circle of peers. After all, she is not as savvy as you are regarding the corporate rules.
Break away gradually, but eventually reduce all contacts to office hours. Recognize the simple fact of office life that the higher you go, the fewer friends you'll have in the company.
I guess you had some inkling of these things, but did you fully understand the brutal reality of this coded system?
One may ask what this code of behaviour is good for. And here is an answer: Take the story of the two office clerks who were doing a lousy job. They happened to be great friends with the manager of that department.
Now, the two clerks were directly responsible for the company's loss of $40,000 worth of business. And when their boss was asked to fire these men, he wouldn't do it. Therefore, he was fired along with his fiends, the clerks. That was the consequence of his failure to separate friendship from the demands of the business. - 15790
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