(e.g: The *thing* that's bugging me today)
Anyone who wants gripe about work to me just bores me.
Nobody is going to read my blog in its stages of infancy, so here we go:
There are a handful of people at work who have been there for, oh let's say: an average of 10 years between them. They're not directors or associates, none of them hold any particular amazing position at work.
They're the people who treat office politics like the be all and end all of their life. They scheme for pettiest things like the best seat in the open plan office. They're the ones who make sarcastic comments out loud. They're the ones who take other people out to lunch and asks them what they've heard A say about B behind their back. They plot and scheme to get the tall poppies fired. Australians hate tall poppies. They all talk behind each others' backs. They all hate each other but they hang around together and then squabble but make up the next day. Ad Nauseum. Ad Infinitum.
BUT they won't leave their mediocre positions because they've been there too long, they're too scared of what's outside.
They're insecure because they've been sidelined and bypassed for promotion by people who have been there for much less time than they.
They pick people on their team whom they think are weaker to build their little army of supporters. Sounds like a PC game, I know I know.
They'll be bitter to the very end.
Watch your back, because these people, they live in EVERY work place all round the world.
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