If you have a job in a fair-sized office and you get promoted, here is how to handle your new caste problems gracefully.
Continue at first to accept invitations to the homes of employee friends who now are your subordinates, but reciprocate only with group invitations. Then don't accept at all.
For instance, find ways of avoiding the old group at lunch time. Let them understand you cannot be one of them any longer.
If you have a family, then you may give your wife more leeway in disengaging from the old circle of peers. After all, she is not as savvy as you are regarding the corporate rules.
Indeed, this severance of old ties is a gradual process which may take some time - but one day it is completed. Get used to the fact that it is lonely at the top.
It is likely that you already had some degree of familiarity with this set of corporate rules, however; I doubt you were quite aware of how powerful the whole code actually is.
Is the caste system considered "good"? Yes - and essential. One department head told of an accounting manager having two close friends working for him who were inefficient and resented by other workers.
Their sloppy work lost the company $40,000. The manager was told to crack down. He wouldn't or couldn't. So the two workers plus the manager got fired. He refused to learn where his job began and friendships ended. - 16069
Continue at first to accept invitations to the homes of employee friends who now are your subordinates, but reciprocate only with group invitations. Then don't accept at all.
For instance, find ways of avoiding the old group at lunch time. Let them understand you cannot be one of them any longer.
If you have a family, then you may give your wife more leeway in disengaging from the old circle of peers. After all, she is not as savvy as you are regarding the corporate rules.
Indeed, this severance of old ties is a gradual process which may take some time - but one day it is completed. Get used to the fact that it is lonely at the top.
It is likely that you already had some degree of familiarity with this set of corporate rules, however; I doubt you were quite aware of how powerful the whole code actually is.
Is the caste system considered "good"? Yes - and essential. One department head told of an accounting manager having two close friends working for him who were inefficient and resented by other workers.
Their sloppy work lost the company $40,000. The manager was told to crack down. He wouldn't or couldn't. So the two workers plus the manager got fired. He refused to learn where his job began and friendships ended. - 16069
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