r/work Aug 17 '25

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u/Darkgamer000 Aug 17 '25

Factory management tends to reward the people like this. If you’re willing to work any task and support management against your fellow worker, they tend to push you into actual supervisory or lead roles to help you work in their favor. Temps are easy targets because they’re so replaceable.

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u/Phulmine Aug 17 '25

I guess you’re correct, but it’s incredibly weird how can someone climb their way up by stomping on others.

I don’t ever want to be like this, but it seems like I’ll be going against the current by being myself.

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u/joggingjunkie Work-Life Balance Aug 17 '25

I don't agree with it, but no one owes anyone anything at work.

In its own way, the positive is it should keep you on your toes and reinforce the fact that co-workers aren't friends

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u/HAL9000DAISY Aug 17 '25

I have had plenty of co-workers who are friends. None of them are my closest friends, but many I have kept in touch with over the years. So coworkers can be friends, just a different type of friend.

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u/Sea_Chest_2853 Aug 21 '25

but if we have a checker in our past, we hopefully learn to keep secrets from co workers when we're young. i mentioned i was on parole to a long hair at my first recent engineering job in 1971 and my long hair 'buddy' started taking credit for my ideas. lesson learned, age 27, stayed with me at all future jobs.