Do you participate in office politics?

[motely36]

I am trying to stay out of it in my new job, but it is all everyone else is talking about.

:banghead:

[suninvited]

1. When it comes to the office, I keep my mouth shut

on all things political. Especially right now. I work in the oilfield industry.

[motely36]

2. I was referring to the interoffice politics

between coworkers

[ReliantJ]

11. Yes. we started an uprising

Word to animal farm yo

[Shell Beau]

12. Hey, I do too!

What part do you work in?

[Midlodemocrat]

3. No. It helps that I work from home, but I've occasionally

been 'dragged' into it. I steer clear of it. Nothing good comes out of partaking in office politics.

[HopeHoops]

4. Just answer: "Oh, I don't like to talk about the CEO sleeping with the janitor's mistress."

If they pry, you respond, "Well, it wouldn't be prudent to discuss the Marketing Director and her department sex slaves, or the incestuous relationships from the sales department nepotism, so I really don't have any comment on the subject at all."

:hide: :popcorn:

[no name no slogan]

5. I honestly try to avoid it

but sometimes somebody sucks me in. Thankfully, I'm usually not alone, and it involves everybody in my workgroup.

If I do participate, I NEVER go in alone.

[av8rdave]

6. Thankfully, I don't work in an office

Don't know if I could handle that stuff.

[Lil Missy]

7. No! Stay away from office politics. Series!

[ipfilter]

8. I hate office politics.

Thankfully, the fact that our office is union drives the sycophants away. The type-a sycophants try to advance themselves up the pay scale with the same old tired bullshit and it just doesn't work here. They get hired every now and then. They always make a big splash, get frustrated, and quit. It's fun to watch.

[qwertyMike]

9. I loved it

But I was a back-room guy quietly stirring up shit.

Hell you get bored in the cubicle.

Did I also mention I always won the office board game "Diplomacy"

My favorite expression was "Who, me?"

I am EVIL

[Shell Beau]

10. Nope! I think most of the people I work with are republicans.

I don't feel like getting ganged up on either.

[tjwmason]

13. As little as I can

The place I work is a highly political set of competing overlapping empires. When I arrived I (naively) thought that I'd just get on with my job, however it rapidly became apparent that to operate in an unpolitical manner (i.e., just get on with my job) I would have to be highly political...thus whilst I do office politics as little as possible, that is a heck of a lot.

[Jamastiene]

14. I keep my head down and my thoughts to myself.

I'm there to do a job and then go home for my socializing and interacting (other than business). Or at least that's what I do when I'm in any job/office or otherwise situation away from home. It's the best policy. Office politics eventually end up in someone getting hurt.