If you have a job in a fair-sized office and you get promoted, here is how to handle your new caste problems gracefully.
First, accept invitations to their homes; but reciprocate only with group invitations - then find excuses not to associate with them at all.
For instance, find ways of avoiding the old group at lunch time. Let them understand you cannot be one of them any longer.
Assuming you are a husband, allow your wife more time to pull away from friendships among those who are now your subordinates. She doesn't understand office protocol as you do, needs to make the transition more slowly.
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?
Is the caste system considered "good"? Yes - and essential. One department head told of an accounting manager having two close friends working for him who were inefficient and resented by other workers.
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. - 15359
First, accept invitations to their homes; but reciprocate only with group invitations - then find excuses not to associate with them at all.
For instance, find ways of avoiding the old group at lunch time. Let them understand you cannot be one of them any longer.
Assuming you are a husband, allow your wife more time to pull away from friendships among those who are now your subordinates. She doesn't understand office protocol as you do, needs to make the transition more slowly.
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?
Is the caste system considered "good"? Yes - and essential. One department head told of an accounting manager having two close friends working for him who were inefficient and resented by other workers.
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. - 15359
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