How do you survive or cope up with the office politics?

[kit_cebu]

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mind your business... i don't mean to be rude but, just don't think about it and do your thing...positive thing to stay in that company.. especially if ganahan ka sa company...

[dbgg1979]

Pasakay lang gud.

Exactly... this kind of attitude towards office politics will really help you survive. Avoiding office politics completely won't get you anywhere. Eventually, it will hit you and if you got no experience on how to handle it, then you're in deep sh*t.

There is no such thing as avoiding office politics. On your very first day at work, you're already part of it. So rather than avoid it, I would advice you to face it and practice how to handle it. If you can't handle it, quit your job and start over again.

[mYta82]

hmmm..dnt mind it at all,just do ur job well and if it gets personal na..iba na yun...but kung ayaw mo ng gulo might as well leave na lng...and m guessing it wont be much of ur loss but der loss, di ba?=p

[daredavid]

unsa pa mga fellow istoryans??

[pepponeskie]

natoral ra na bro...pinoy gud ta kusug kaau ang politika...pasagdi na, sa masuya lang.

i quit my previous job because of this politics...di ka epada ug gawas maski maau ka kay naay paborito, gamay ra ang increase sa imong sweldo maski lisud ang tasks sa imong trabaho, every meeting magpa dungog2x, tanang balaod ilaha pabor (bawal cellphone sulod sa opisina, bawal mag storya, putol internet, bawal mag email2x internally, dapat limpyo ang lamesa walay daghang libro..kuwang nalang mo ginhawa)...nganong dili nalang output sa trabaho ang tanawon....hahay office politics

lucky nalang karon akoy sunod nga ranggo sa manager, pwede nako mang bully sa lower ranks, hehehehe...pero i wont do that, that's unjust and inhumane, kay lisud na ug ma ihaw ta, ehehehhe.

[Klave]

It really depends if you want to dive into it or not.

If you want to be involved with the least amount of politics.

Be transparent and be honest, leave no room for manipulation. Pretty easy huh?
Not so, sometimes people rile you up so you put your defenses up.

Here are the list of things they want to happen:
Get you emotional...mad, overly happy and sad...when you are emotional it makes you prone to temptations or provocations.
Get you to make big mistakes...big mistakes are always the first thing everyone remembers especially your boss.
Get you to lie...sorry but you've just been corrupted by office politics.

Here are list of things you need to keep doing:
Report to your boss as needed. Like I said, be transparent.
A big mistake is usually the accumulation of small mistakes, report these mistakes, the sooner you will be reporting them the more conscious you will become and hopefully you don't repeat them.
Don't ever lie even just to cover your ass, admit mistakes and apologize properly.

When you are involved...that's for another time

[daredavid]

Ka kapoy ba aning office politics uy pero saon ta man, naa man jud nah, wala man ta'y mabuhat. Hehehe..

[sagoy]

Office politics sucks, but it's everywhere. So we should live with it, and learn our own way of office politics.

[MRchurchill]

Few people can handle it and most people can't. But those who can and thrive on it end up being in the higher ups. If you want to be a boss some day you need to know your way around people. People skills>technical skills in the office.

[daredavid]

Ang dili ka antos, Mamutos! Hahayy! Kapoy pa ang trabaho nya naa pa'y office politics, saman, sige pa ta ani?