Friends at work

[Anonymous No.55374082]

Is it worth it to be friend with your manager?

[Anonymous No.55374221]

>>55374082
you can never be friends with your manager. You're friends until your manager has a new director watching over them and suddenly they start to micro-manage you because they're being micro-managed themselves. Or suddenly you make a mistake with a client and your manager has to start confronting you about it.

It's actually impossible, and trying to do so just makes the entire work environment so much more awkward.

[Anonymous No.55374258]

>>55374082
>he doesnt sex his divorced overweight 40 year old roastie manager for job security

ngmi anon

[Anonymous No.55374302]

>>55374082
Absolutely bad idea like the first anon said. >>55374258
This is the only acceptable relation to have with your bosses and that's only if you don't care losing your job after the deed is done

[Anonymous No.55374454]

>>55374221
But how do you secure your job in hard times or benefit from nepotism if it isn t bcz of someone higher in the hierarchy?

[Anonymous No.55374460]

>>55374221
>>55374302
>Absolutely bad idea

A colleague I got along with really well over the last year since I joined this company just got made manager for our team.
Its weird, our dynamic hasn't changed but there have been one or two incidents where we're shooting the shit and he says something like "hey don't say that I'm your manager now"
He says it while laughing but it does make me a little nervous.
I also don't want to go cold to him though in case he gets upset? Awkward situation.

[OPepe No.55374463]

>>55374258
>>55374302
Don t cum where you eat anons.

[Anonymous No.55374477]

My manager is seriously one of the coolest people I’ve ever met. I get to study, program, and watch YouTube all day and he’ll occasionally interrupt me to just talk about whatever but I don’t mind it too much
>t work at university’s help desk

[Anonymous No.55374511]

Is it better to be friends with your colleagues in case they get promoted to manager or went to other good companies and they can help you get in?

>>55374477
>university’s help desk
That explains it all

[Anonymous No.55374573]

if you listen to 4chan, you can't be friends with anyone, because of scenarios that did not happen to anons personally, but have conceivably happened to someone else, maybe. better take comfort in the safety of your own bitterness

[Anonymous No.55374637]

>>55374082
Listen to
>>55374221 and all the rest.

A while back I got a long with my manager and coworkers. Comfy job, low stress, great money, etc.

We get new CEO + suits to shake up the business. CMO was always a prick BUT NOW, has a way to make his name with the new CEO.

Things practically changed overnight. Those laid back meetings where replaced with incredibly tense, high stakes office politics.

Coworkers would soon talk shit to mgmt because it meant they got a seat at the lifeboat while me and a few others got axed. The pressure to deliver unreasonable results came from the top which meant the grunts had to bear the brunt of the beat downs.

Rule #1 with corpos is you're just a number to them. No such things as friends while you're in the wage cage.

>fast forward a week after my dismissal, all project successes were attributed to the ONE coworker who didn't do shit, literally could not copy/paste word docs

The only loyalty is to your self and kin.

thanks for reading my blogpost

[Anonymous No.55374699]

>>55374511
Obviously leave on good terms. I still keep in touch with ex-team mates and other people from different departments that I worked closed with. They haven't been able to pull strings for a new gig but I've gotten great advice/recommendations from them that have helped out when interviewing.

It's a bit harder with direct superiors however. I guess depending on the circumstances. My boss from college is a great guy, honestly owe him a ton for even giving me a chance to wage cage with him. Corpo bosses? Fuck those guys. Scum of the earth.


>Boss:It's not personnel...
>Bitch! I can't pay bills, it affects me PERSONALLY
REEEEEEEEEEEEE

[Anonymous No.55374716]

>waging
>not using astrology to pick stonks instead

Stay poor

[Anonymous No.55375101]

>>55374082
What will happen to this Lady next?

[Anonymous No.55375120]

>>55374082

maybe i haven't been at a good enough job but i've never had all this weird shit happen to me in fact it's mostly me NOT being friends with people that gets me in trouble.

You can be friends just do your fucking job and listen to the manager still like come on this is not rocket science. and if you get axed for "bro i was literally TOO friends with my manager" you might be delusional, except in very rare situations where your friendship appears too close and he has people up his ass about special treatment real or imagined

but dont get drunk in front of your coworkers i think. regrettable even when it's not imo

[OPepe No.55375419]

>>55374637
Thanks for the insight anon
>>55374699
Kek, dubs of truth, considering that managers don t move from company to company is beter to keep in touch with your coworkers
>>55374716
>Not being a value investor
Pathetic
>>55375101
Their coworkers will cum in her coffee.

[Anonymous No.55375433]

>>55374221
i was friends with my manager even after he disciplined me and im still friends with him after he left the company. just find something in common.

[Anonymous No.55375479]

>>55374221
Oddly specific but this anon is correct. Its also the reason you should never start a business with close friends, but do it with people you vaguely remembered that you worked with 5 years ago

[Anonymous No.55375548]

Big cock = is instant friends and way to the top.
Small/Mid cock = average co worker unless you are a nigger which get a pass for having a smaller cock.

[Anonymous No.55375593]

>>55374463

>Spend 50 hrs a week at your job

Where you gonna find a GF?

[Anonymous No.55375611]

I got a FT job where I work 3 days a week. Everybody is a lazy, flaky piece of shit except me so the manager loves me. And I have 4 days off every week so I actually feel motivated to go back to work at the beginning of the week. Comfiest job ever

[Anonymous No.55375731]

>>55374221
me and my manager take molly and bar hop together and I help him score with women

sorry you couldn't break out of the corporate wagie cuck matrix

[Anonymous No.55376979]

>>55374221
I would have opposed this a few months ago since I was friends with my boss before they became my boss and always got along with them great for years. Actually became better friends with them after they became my boss and went to their house and out for drinks and such often. Out of nowhere they stabbed me in the back and sabotaged my job, no idea why but I'm now out of a job.

I will never become friends with a manager ever again. I'll be nice to them, maybe hang out at a happy hour or something, but never real friends.

[Anonymous No.55376990]

>>55374082
No but if you finesse the situation you can make them suck up to you daily for validation

[OP No.55377207]

>>55374082
I have been friends/a son figure to all of my managers. I get promoted like crazy and have a very good work life balance. I’m also good at my job so that helps, but in general being friends with people at work can only help

[Anonymous No.55377233]

Yeah be friends but don’t do drugs with them

[Anonymous No.55377315]

>>55375611
my Sr. VP is the best!
she leaves at 1pm or 2pm most days when she's not on maternity leave. it gives me a chance to be a leader.

[Anonymous No.55377347]

i don't even want to be friends with my co-workers.
I'm nice to them, sometimes I ignore this annoying guy though that tries to kiss managements ass and micro-manage all the other wagies though hahahahah he got so mad too, trying to make me listen and trying to punish me except he's just a wagie that is annoying so he can't do shit.

I heard someone say once "were you friends with your co-workers before you started working there? would you be friends with your co-workers if you weren't paid to associate with them?" and I was like no, I wouldn't.

[Anonymous No.55377998]

"work friends" aren't your real friends. they are work friends and you should try to make them because interpersonal relationships with people of all levels should be something to add to your skills when wage slaving. being able to be candid with people that you can trust (after obvious vetting) about situations and hearing different perspectives that you otherwise would never be able to have are invaluable. also the doors that can be opened down to road during your career with people you've worked with in the past is equally invaluable. awkward edgy antisocial types limit their options

[OPepe No.55378658]

>>55375548
>t.coomer
>>55375593
>Where you gonna find a GF?
At religious events
>>55376979
As i said, people who become manager or bosses are gonna stay there for a long time so they arz gonna do everything to stay in the position
>>55377998
Well written my kitten