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post Jul 1 2006, 11:30 PM

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QUOTE(mIssfROGY @ Jul 1 2006, 10:32 PM)
everywer also got office politics....just dun care wat other say and dun spread the word.
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In a business organization, be it small Sdn Bhd or multinational company, everyone inside (actually to be more apt, most) is working for money, and money alone. Everyone is struggling to protect their own interests, to compete for promotion either morally or unscrupulously for more power and higher status, and with the ultimate goal, to get more money income.

Why this is so? Because everybody have to survive, have families to feed, have to give their children better education, have to pay high medical expenses for their elderly parents and ultimately to withstand the rediculously increasing and high living cost. It is human nature that politics are everywhere. It is the same as the wild nature out there.
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post Jul 1 2006, 11:38 PM

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in my company i have to becareful when talking...have to be careful in every single words..too many GPS antenna and astro satelitte installed everywhere
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post Jul 1 2006, 11:38 PM

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Get involved or get Booted LOL laugh.gif
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post Jul 1 2006, 11:44 PM

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the best office politics is of course when someone has an affair with a colleague.
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post Jul 1 2006, 11:59 PM

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QUOTE(quintessential @ Jul 1 2006, 11:44 PM)
the best office politics is of course when someone has an affair with a colleague.
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seriously, this happens to 2 of my colleagues going for another female colleague sweat.gif
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post Jul 2 2006, 01:10 AM

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in big GLC... from what I experienced, there are two type of politics
1. kiss up politics... everybody have to kiss up to the big guy, if he say jump, you can only ask how high?..... but problem starts when even the secretary starts to have the authority to tell you to jump!
2. camp politics.... where there are several camps within the office with conflicting interest/goal... this one is mati liao! you are either with one camp or you'll be assumed to be on the other. nobody likes a 'neutral'... too unpredictable. rclxub.gif

the hardest part is if one camp lose in the powerplay, the whole heirarchy will have to face the broom, pressured out or coldstoraged. and in the reshuffle, most of the time, even the neutrals will be sweep out together with the garbage.

its a hard life, most ppl, just for the sake of survival, had to play both sides against the middle.... now that's office politics.

thank god i'm behind all that now. rclxm9.gif

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post Jul 2 2006, 10:58 AM

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QUOTE(alqa @ Jul 2 2006, 01:10 AM)
thank god i'm behind all that now.  rclxm9.gif
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Hi, just curious how can you behind all of those politics? Is it because you are on a higher rank of the coporate ladder now? Or you are the boss now?
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post Jul 2 2006, 11:32 AM

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Office politic...suck!
i hate those lazy people still play those politics to step on people for climbing higher... those nosy people who know to talk gossip, and do nothing


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post Jul 3 2006, 02:32 AM

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QUOTE(Shinichi @ Jul 2 2006, 10:58 AM)
Hi, just curious how can you behind all of those politics? Is it because you are on a higher rank of the coporate ladder now? Or you are the boss now?
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quit and started my own business... still got asses to kiss, but they are not in my office!
and you get paid for the work done and not for kissing the right asses. tongue.gif
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QUOTE(valenlim @ Jul 2 2006, 11:32 AM)
Office politic...suck!
i hate those lazy people still play those politics to step on people for climbing higher... those nosy people who know to talk gossip, and do nothing
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you think those are bad enuff? try and go to really, really big firms.... GLC, Govt office... not only they dont do work, they even compete amongst the gossips for who can kiss up enuff to do even less work.
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post Jul 3 2006, 10:36 AM

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I cried once when I first joined me current company, all because of those political 'b****es. But now I 'established' my own gang to counter-back, and they don't dare to bully me now. Another way for you to counter office politics is to be an absolute 'lone ranger' who works for work. There's 2 colleagues who practice that and nobody even bother to gossip about them, cause there's nothing to gossip!
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post Jul 3 2006, 10:52 AM

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I'm victim of this kind of politic cry.gif
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post Jul 3 2006, 12:36 PM

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if your colleague is not willing to share his knowledge, voila!
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post Jul 3 2006, 08:33 PM

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QUOTE(fraulein @ Jul 3 2006, 10:36 AM)
Another way for you to counter office politics is to be an absolute 'lone ranger' who works for work. There's 2 colleagues who practice that and nobody even bother to gossip about them, cause there's nothing to gossip!
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Good idea there tongue.gif But if like this I think they can hardly get a promotion. Maybe Im wrong though...

QUOTE(quintessential @ Jul 3 2006, 12:36 PM)
if your colleague is not willing to share his knowledge, voila!
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Hi, may I know what knowledge you mean? Politic knowledge or work knowledge?

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post Jul 3 2006, 09:03 PM

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if office politic or gossip affect me especially those talkative biatches, i will use coin to scratch their car if i have chance, haha.
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post Jul 3 2006, 10:23 PM

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Office politics. Damn hate it. But the simple rule seems to be establishing ties with the important people without playing politics, but only through real work and sweat- or at least that's what I observed.

ie. Someone b****es about you in front of your supervisor/boss. Meanwhile you prove the person wrong to your supervisor/boss by your performance review and you don't b**** back (act as though you didn't know you got b****ed). In the end of the day, you're the clean and performing dude and he's the politician. You win.
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post Jul 4 2006, 12:13 AM

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office politics is only for those company very free until got nothing better to do and just gossip.

Let say ur very buzy, i am sure u won't have that TIME to gossip about anyone ... coz u dun even have time to go to the loo.
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post Jul 4 2006, 12:52 AM

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QUOTE(casper04 @ Jul 4 2006, 12:13 AM)
office politics is only for those company very free until got nothing better to do and just gossip.

Let say ur very buzy, i am sure u won't have that TIME to gossip about anyone ... coz u dun even have time to go to the loo.
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Incorrect, I worked in a multinational manufacturing plant before. Because of the manufacturing nature of the company, people are very overloaded, and unable to make profits, people started to be very defensive and bureaucratic.

If you have experienced on how aggressive and dangerous bureaucratic politics are, you will shiver.

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QUOTE(TYK @ Jul 4 2006, 12:52 AM)
Incorrect, I worked in a multinational manufacturing plant before. Because of the manufacturing nature of the company, people are very overloaded, and unable to make profits, people started to be very defensive and bureaucratic.

If you have experienced on how aggressive and dangerous bureaucratic politics are, you will shiver.
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Couldn't agree more. You must be tough then. Salute smile.gif

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post Jul 4 2006, 09:57 PM

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QUOTE(Shinichi @ Jul 3 2006, 09:33 PM)
Hi, may I know what knowledge you mean? Politic knowledge or work knowledge?
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those who kedekut ilmu. keep it to themselves and don't wnant to share it.

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