How to Handle Office Politics

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@user-nu8in3ey8c Ай бұрын

A company is like a giant clock, all of the cogs have to mesh together....... Here is a summary of the above video: 1. Leave to a less political workplace if possible (unlikely, every place I have ever worked is political) 2. Be a yes man, only say things your boss agrees with 3. Suck up to the important people 4. Show off all of your work and everything useful you do to your boss so you look like a useful employee.

@BOSSDONMAN Ай бұрын

Ty for the summary! Underrated video!

@asmas19 Ай бұрын

The best thing you can do for your kids and wife, husband, family etc. Is to leave even if it temporary going to restrict means of living. I know people who age too fast in these environments, suffer from years of burnout and mental health issues which will inevitably lead to early death and terminal illness. If you have no other option - pace yourself Do not work beyond a certain paygrade. Don't listen to boomer parents they won't understand

@annastone5624 Ай бұрын

First 2 min and wow!! This is the first time I’ve ever heard work politics explained for what it is. Excellent. 1) Meritocracies have a lot less politics 2) Incompetence is what much of the politics exists to cover up and to get what they want (promotions, positions, bonuses etc) without actually getting better at their job. So to me it seems ‘politics’ is basically a professional term for manipulation and manoeuvring. It’s the ‘game’

@PatRiarchy-qw6cp Ай бұрын

DEI is the most toxic part of it

@chrisnatale5901 Ай бұрын

You give the best career advice I've seen on a KZbin channel. Great work.

@tatsianaptashnik1479 Ай бұрын

Great and highly relatable content! I’m glad I’ve come across your channel.

@RichGilbert Ай бұрын

Glad you enjoy it!

@michellethompson5545 29 күн бұрын

Thank you so much for your advice. I’ve been working a corporate job for the past six months and what you are saying makes complete sense. I am changing my strategy from working extra hard to making connections.

@PatRiarchy-qw6cp Ай бұрын

I survived it by leaving and becoming an independent contractor. I haven't had to deal with an HR department in years. Good riddance.

@hrmcleod77 2 ай бұрын

Sometimes you can't leave. Right now, unless you're in AI projects all the other work really isn't noticed. Great video.

@michaelduke4500 Ай бұрын

The first bit of advice is, to get out, and the second is, "play the game and suck it up buttercup" if you can't leave because you chose to keep up the with Joneses.

@RichGilbert Ай бұрын

Kinda true

@mitru98 21 күн бұрын

Absolutely the best advice on company politics, so far

@MrOsasco Ай бұрын

Left a well paid job in a business jet manufacturer because I did not submitted to their BS.

@Monsiemage 2 күн бұрын

I think a big problem is these are simply games that Gen-Z and Millennials don't want to play. It's wild being a millennial in the current state of workplaces, when I started in the work place we were essentially all "Hazed" in especially working blue collar. We did the worst task for years with a likely promise that "We all did this and worked like this when we were younger, you'll move up working like this" All of that was a lie, my dad is a older Gen-X and described his first job in the blue collar industry as "baby steps" he said he was given a low ranking job title starting out and they really never asked much of him, no more than what was described hiring in. We were actually just used to take the work load off of everyone else. 14 years of me being in the workforce he drew the line of what happened and so did I. My dad's bosses when he grew up were part of the "silent generation" In my opinion the greatest generation in US history where as now boomers are running workplaces. I have a theory that the "office politic" rout was basically invented by boomers. They found ways to get jobs they were not qualified for and to last, their goal was to move up places while doing as little work as possible, this isn't a blanket statement either, my dad is practically a boomer, but there's two very different kinds. My dad didn't want to move into management, his goal was always the "highest" ranking working employee, those people are simply tough as nails, typically your most knowledgeable and hardest working at a establishment. I've been absolutely baffled the past couple of years watching someone come in at a high ranking management position then watching people they know come in to jobs they have no idea how to do, then said peoples brothers, cousins, ect. Their only goal is to get everyone they know into a place somewhere because no one can do anything if they bring enough people in, doesn't matter if they all have zero clue of what their doing as long as they can solicit the younger people or more experienced people to basically do it for them. I know for a fact a lot of my generation really enjoyed the idea of going somewhere, working hard, getting promoted ect. However we all saw what was going on and really at that point just tried to fit the new corporate system. Show up to work, figure out what equates to "100%" of goals met, don't volunteer for anything, stay away from all the politics, ignore injustice in the promotion system, like the same college football team as your manager. The best one is your job performance as long as it meets the bare minimum has nothing to do with you getting promoted. That's why everyone thinks the younger generation is lazy, we are just ad-hearing to the current state of workplace environment.

@4JamesJones Жыл бұрын

be a good cog!

@aewcontrol2984 Ай бұрын

Use the companies to get projects done for your portfolio, and train train train so you can destroy your enemies with your work.

@YoutubeStandardLicense Ай бұрын

On your 1 in 1s with your boss show them your work in a concise manner. Market yourself as if he/she is a client. Everyone else drip feed them information. There will be one or two you can trust but it will take a few years to find them.

@brianolsen396 Ай бұрын

That horn is abusive to my ears man

@endlesssummer162 Ай бұрын

Came here to say that as well. Had my earbuds in and wow, was that LOUD!

@joequinal Ай бұрын

Lmao I thought the same thing… I was working out and almost dropped the weights!

@tomek3880 Ай бұрын

@RichGilbert

@yuriy5376 Ай бұрын

That horn needs to go. It's so annoying I almost quit the video after the 3rd one.

@tomek3880 Ай бұрын

@@yuriy5376 Was there more than one? I stopped after very first one. Good practice is to make unwanted sound quieter not adding louder sound to cover something.

@deltapi8859 Ай бұрын

"Know everyone's opinion BEFORE a meeting starts" Bro, where have you been before my first Job and following burnout?

@ShubhanshAgrawal Ай бұрын

10 years of working in Japanese companies in a nutshell (7 different companies but all had this consensus from group and poorest decision was chosen if he/she had more influence)

@jamespn Ай бұрын

The best solution is retirement.

@butchdetrey5911 21 күн бұрын

So right

@Blurufoodaz Жыл бұрын

Better leave that office …. Don’t compromise in a toxic environment

@RichGilbert Жыл бұрын

That seems to be the best bet. 👍

@user-nu8in3ey8c Ай бұрын

Good luck, every place I have ever worked is political. We don't have jobs to make friends, we have a job to get a paycheck (some to get status and a paycheck). Its called work because it sucks and no one wants to do it, its why they pay you to clock in for x hours every day.

@jebotipasmater Ай бұрын

I tried fighting them once for 3 years. In the end the owners actually changed half of the leadership (apparently NOT due to office politics). And, you guessed it, NOTHING changed! In fact, it became even worse. I quit soon after.

@andreykmtl 14 күн бұрын

Another option - quitting the Matrix all together. As a westerner you might have way more value by relocating to a non-western country, say somewhere in Latin America or Asia. Its not for most, but could work very well for some, especially single men. Im planning on leaving North America in a few years. Currently working on income streams before maming any moves. God Bless everyone!

@whatisthis839 2 ай бұрын

Watching your mouth is important, but never forget how you can use your mouth if you’re a reeeeally political person

@marioarguello6989 Ай бұрын

Kamala, is that you?

@SpookyEng1 Ай бұрын

@@marioarguello6989Heels Up!

@comicbooknarcissist Ай бұрын

I'm in financial services. What is it about larger firms that make them more political?

@cesarborja1064 Ай бұрын

Money :D It's a zero-sum game.

@echelon8913 Ай бұрын

don’t ever use that mf horn again

@WTHenry2023 28 күн бұрын

😂😂😂

@babyprince84uk Ай бұрын

Did you say if you are surrounded with Turkeys? Why, are they hard to work with?

@darknewt9959 2 ай бұрын

With European employee rights, an intelligent guy with an opinion and some difficult questions can indeed effect change. I appreciate that it doesn't work like that in America, and that is why I am campaigning (via the Socratic method) to have our UK-based organisation separate its American operation, so I never have to go there.

@RichGilbert 2 ай бұрын

Yeah there is a bit of a difference in Europe. I lived in the Netherlands for 5 years and my kids all live and work there now. Employees are clearly defined as a corporate stakeholder in many companies. At the same time, Europe lacks a lot of the innovation and economic drive that America has had for decades. It’s a balance I guess. Thanks for the comment!

@darknewt9959 2 ай бұрын

@@RichGilbert A very valid observation. I suppose I don't think too hard about that because I'm in a regulated industry and our regulators are angry dinosaurs, so no innovation for us, even in USA :-) I spend a lot of time in the Netherlands, and every time I return home to the UK, I think "yeah, we could really learn a thing or two from those foreign Johnnies - or at least sell Frites Saus in the shops"

@RichGilbert 2 ай бұрын

@@darknewt9959friets. Yum!

@azeez8399 Ай бұрын

This is a topic they NEVER teach you in schools.

@PySnek 9 күн бұрын

Of course not. They teach you nearly nothing about life in school.

@simaancheno Ай бұрын

That's all right but sometimes I think: - what would I think about myself when it will be my time go? Have I managed to be happy about myself? This also includes letting ugly people rule over my self esteem? - why are people so miserable that they have to enforce this masquerade upon companies or even the whole society? Sure, we cannot change any big system, but would we really be happy about cowardly give up?

@user-nu8in3ey8c Ай бұрын

Because almost every workplace is political. Because you go to work to make a paycheck. Work sucks, no one likes to go to work, so they pay people to show up and clock in. We do this for 30-40 years and go to a nursing home or die. That is pretty much the workplace. We don't go to work to be "individuals" or to be happy with ourselves. Every social animal species has a dominance hierarchy. Every company, HOA, social club, or government has a dominance hierarchy. It is the way of the world, everyone somewhere has to answer to a boss. It is what it is.

@simaancheno Ай бұрын

@@user-nu8in3ey8c That's BS, animals don't have hierarchies, have leaders. Animals don't have big structures, they have little islands that try to protect and there is no inheritance in the animal world. Also, they don't accumulate wealth for the sake of it and don't aim at ruling for the sake of it. You also seem to have misread my previous comment. But anyway, things don't change because of people like you.

@annastone5624 Ай бұрын

Yes but if that dominance hierarchy, is also, as it should be, a competence hierarchy,. then it can actually be very fulfilling.. Where the problem comes, is incompetence, people not pulling their weight, no one making those people accountable for that. Good workers carrying the load of the weak ones etc that’s where all the misery comes from. With a decent amount of meritocracy and good management, there should be no reason for the workplace to be a place of misery.