cross-posted from: https://linux.community/post/1144192
you might be an introvert, passionate about your job, or simply old enough to disregard friendships at work because you already have enough friends and a family.
The coworkers I like the most are the ones that come to work, don’t like drama, do their job and go home. That’s what I try to do.
However, there are always some established cliques who know how to play the unit / supervisor and get away doing much less, even feeling entitled to order you around, even though they are not your supervisor.
To people who experience this. How do you tolerate it? Even after changing jobs, this can happen at your new workplace, maybe it happens in every workplace?
I’ve only worked with a small handful of people I’ve felt were genuinely lazy and earning unwarranted praise. I’ve more often found they had better insight into what would be most valued and earn recognition, and they didn’t spend as much energy on things that wouldn’t.
The ones who really were lazy usually eventually were “offered other opportunities elsewhere”, aka asked to leave. Or their manager was “offered other opportunities” and replaced by someone with better management skills.
It did take me a bit to learn this and it only started sinking in after I was stuck in a job watching everyone around me get promoted.