Take this job and shove it

Many jobs today are rife with internal politics and hidden agendas that have little to do with the job itself or your ability to execute it. Ingratiate yourself with the ruling elite, and you can do nothing wrong. Operate outside of that, and you can do nothing right. You’ll be targeted, set up for failure, and even be made to feel afraid at work. It happens everywhere, and more often than you’d think...
 

Fyrefox said:
Many jobs today are rife with internal politics and hidden agendas that have little to do with the job itself or your ability to execute it. Ingratiate yourself with the ruling elite, and you can do nothing wrong. Operate outside of that, and you can do nothing right. You’ll be targeted, set up for failure, and even be made to feel afraid at work. It happens everywhere, and more often than you’d think...
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Yup. I have watched a good many, once-powerful businesses fail because internal politics took on greater importance than products or customers in critical areas in the company.
 
I remember back several years ago when we had new Trooper come onboard. After his 30 days of riding along with an experienced Trooper, he was cut loose, meaning that he was assigned to his own car and patrol area. He lasted 12 days to be exact. The irony of this is that while he was being trained on the job (OTJ), all he kept telling his partner was how grateful he was to get his job and how excited he was to be a state trooper and how proud his parents were.

Then, 12 days later after he was on his own, so to speak, he came into the barracks, sat at a desk and started writing. After he had finished writing, he got up from the desk, walked over to the Supervisor and handed him his resignation. To this day, no one knows the reason, or if someone does, they aren't talking.
 

Fyrefox said:
Many jobs today are rife with internal politics and hidden agendas that have little to do with the job itself or your ability to execute it. Ingratiate yourself with the ruling elite, and you can do nothing wrong. Operate outside of that, and you can do nothing right. You’ll be targeted, set up for failure, and even be made to feel afraid at work. It happens everywhere, and more often than you’d think...
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I've working on projects—one of them was a 3 billion dollar project—where managers were willing to risk the success of the project to settle a score. It was more important for them to go after people they didn't like than to do things to improve morale. Of course, they probably thought they were being good managers since they were totally incompetent and got to where they were by being B.S. artists.
 
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