The best thing you can do for your kids and wife, husband, family etc. Is to leave even if it temporary going to restrict means of living. I know people who age too fast in these environments, suffer from years of burnout and mental health issues which will inevitably lead to early death and terminal illness. If you have no other option - pace yourself Do not work beyond a certain paygrade. Don't listen to boomer parents they won't understand
@user-nu8in3ey8c
2 ай бұрын
A company is like a giant clock, all of the cogs have to mesh together....... Here is a summary of the above video: 1. Leave to a less political workplace if possible (unlikely, every place I have ever worked is political) 2. Be a yes man, only say things your boss agrees with 3. Suck up to the important people 4. Show off all of your work and everything useful you do to your boss so you look like a useful employee.
@BOSSDONMAN
Ай бұрын
Ty for the summary! Underrated video!
@KodiAdmin
2 күн бұрын
Thank you! Very concise summary.
@annastone5624
Ай бұрын
First 2 min and wow!! This is the first time I’ve ever heard work politics explained for what it is. Excellent. 1) Meritocracies have a lot less politics 2) Incompetence is what much of the politics exists to cover up and to get what they want (promotions, positions, bonuses etc) without actually getting better at their job. So to me it seems ‘politics’ is basically a professional term for manipulation and manoeuvring. It’s the ‘game’
@PatRiarchy-qw6cp
Ай бұрын
DEI is the most toxic part of it
@chrisnatale5901
Ай бұрын
You give the best career advice I've seen on a KZitem channel. Great work.
@tatsianaptashnik1479
Ай бұрын
Great and highly relatable content! I’m glad I’ve come across your channel.
@RichGilbert
Ай бұрын
Glad you enjoy it!
@michellethompson5545
Ай бұрын
Thank you so much for your advice. I’ve been working a corporate job for the past six months and what you are saying makes complete sense. I am changing my strategy from working extra hard to making connections.
@hrmcleod77
2 ай бұрын
Sometimes you can't leave. Right now, unless you're in AI projects all the other work really isn't noticed. Great video.
@mitru98
Ай бұрын
Absolutely the best advice on company politics, so far
@michaelduke4500
Ай бұрын
The first bit of advice is, to get out, and the second is, "play the game and suck it up buttercup" if you can't leave because you chose to keep up the with Joneses.
@RichGilbert
Ай бұрын
Kinda true
@PatRiarchy-qw6cp
Ай бұрын
I survived it by leaving and becoming an independent contractor. I haven't had to deal with an HR department in years. Good riddance.
@chrisdabreo2347
Күн бұрын
Did the same 10 years ago. I keep out of all office politics and am amused by it all. I am hired purely on my skills and no other BS. As a result , I say it how it is and that works for me just fine
@aewcontrol2984
Ай бұрын
Use the companies to get projects done for your portfolio, and train train train so you can destroy your enemies with your work.
@4JamesJones
Жыл бұрын
be a good cog!
@joe1-tb789
Күн бұрын
Can you do a video on non compete contacts that you are forced to sign? It keeps people in companies longer than you should be there.
@Monsiemage
16 күн бұрын
I think a big problem is these are simply games that Gen-Z and Millennials don't want to play. It's wild being a millennial in the current state of workplaces, when I started in the work place we were essentially all "Hazed" in especially working blue collar. We did the worst task for years with a likely promise that "We all did this and worked like this when we were younger, you'll move up working like this" All of that was a lie, my dad is a older Gen-X and described his first job in the blue collar industry as "baby steps" he said he was given a low ranking job title starting out and they really never asked much of him, no more than what was described hiring in. We were actually just used to take the work load off of everyone else. 14 years of me being in the workforce he drew the line of what happened and so did I. My dad's bosses when he grew up were part of the "silent generation" In my opinion the greatest generation in US history where as now boomers are running workplaces. I have a theory that the "office politic" rout was basically invented by boomers. They found ways to get jobs they were not qualified for and to last, their goal was to move up places while doing as little work as possible, this isn't a blanket statement either, my dad is practically a boomer, but there's two very different kinds. My dad didn't want to move into management, his goal was always the "highest" ranking working employee, those people are simply tough as nails, typically your most knowledgeable and hardest working at a establishment. I've been absolutely baffled the past couple of years watching someone come in at a high ranking management position then watching people they know come in to jobs they have no idea how to do, then said peoples brothers, cousins, ect. Their only goal is to get everyone they know into a place somewhere because no one can do anything if they bring enough people in, doesn't matter if they all have zero clue of what their doing as long as they can solicit the younger people or more experienced people to basically do it for them. I know for a fact a lot of my generation really enjoyed the idea of going somewhere, working hard, getting promoted ect. However we all saw what was going on and really at that point just tried to fit the new corporate system. Show up to work, figure out what equates to "100%" of goals met, don't volunteer for anything, stay away from all the politics, ignore injustice in the promotion system, like the same college football team as your manager. The best one is your job performance as long as it meets the bare minimum has nothing to do with you getting promoted. That's why everyone thinks the younger generation is lazy, we are just ad-hearing to the current state of workplace environment.
@MrOsasco
Ай бұрын
Left a well paid job in a business jet manufacturer because I did not submitted to their BS.
@WhimsicalShark
Ай бұрын
On your 1 in 1s with your boss show them your work in a concise manner. Market yourself as if he/she is a client. Everyone else drip feed them information. There will be one or two you can trust but it will take a few years to find them.
@deltapi8859
Ай бұрын
"Know everyone's opinion BEFORE a meeting starts" Bro, where have you been before my first Job and following burnout?
@ShubhanshAgrawal
Ай бұрын
10 years of working in Japanese companies in a nutshell (7 different companies but all had this consensus from group and poorest decision was chosen if he/she had more influence)
@brianolsen396
Ай бұрын
That horn is abusive to my ears man
@endlesssummer162
Ай бұрын
Came here to say that as well. Had my earbuds in and wow, was that LOUD!
@joequinal
Ай бұрын
Lmao I thought the same thing… I was working out and almost dropped the weights!
@tomek3880
Ай бұрын
@RichGilbert
@yuriy5376
Ай бұрын
That horn needs to go. It's so annoying I almost quit the video after the 3rd one.
@tomek3880
Ай бұрын
@@yuriy5376 Was there more than one? I stopped after very first one. Good practice is to make unwanted sound quieter not adding louder sound to cover something.
@darknewt9959
2 ай бұрын
With European employee rights, an intelligent guy with an opinion and some difficult questions can indeed effect change. I appreciate that it doesn't work like that in America, and that is why I am campaigning (via the Socratic method) to have our UK-based organisation separate its American operation, so I never have to go there.
@RichGilbert
2 ай бұрын
Yeah there is a bit of a difference in Europe. I lived in the Netherlands for 5 years and my kids all live and work there now. Employees are clearly defined as a corporate stakeholder in many companies. At the same time, Europe lacks a lot of the innovation and economic drive that America has had for decades. It’s a balance I guess. Thanks for the comment!
@darknewt9959
2 ай бұрын
@@RichGilbert A very valid observation. I suppose I don't think too hard about that because I'm in a regulated industry and our regulators are angry dinosaurs, so no innovation for us, even in USA :-) I spend a lot of time in the Netherlands, and every time I return home to the UK, I think "yeah, we could really learn a thing or two from those foreign Johnnies - or at least sell Frites Saus in the shops"
@RichGilbert
2 ай бұрын
@@darknewt9959friets. Yum!
@comicbooknarcissist
Ай бұрын
I'm in financial services. What is it about larger firms that make them more political?
@cesarborja1064
Ай бұрын
Money :D It's a zero-sum game.
@babyprince84uk
Ай бұрын
Did you say if you are surrounded with Turkeys? Why, are they hard to work with?
@whatisthis839
2 ай бұрын
Watching your mouth is important, but never forget how you can use your mouth if you’re a reeeeally political person
@marioarguello6989
2 ай бұрын
Kamala, is that you?
@SpookyEng1
Ай бұрын
@@marioarguello6989Heels Up!
@andreykmtl
28 күн бұрын
Another option - quitting the Matrix all together. As a westerner you might have way more value by relocating to a non-western country, say somewhere in Latin America or Asia. Its not for most, but could work very well for some, especially single men. Im planning on leaving North America in a few years. Currently working on income streams before maming any moves. God Bless everyone!
@simaancheno
2 ай бұрын
That's all right but sometimes I think: - what would I think about myself when it will be my time go? Have I managed to be happy about myself? This also includes letting ugly people rule over my self esteem? - why are people so miserable that they have to enforce this masquerade upon companies or even the whole society? Sure, we cannot change any big system, but would we really be happy about cowardly give up?
@user-nu8in3ey8c
2 ай бұрын
Because almost every workplace is political. Because you go to work to make a paycheck. Work sucks, no one likes to go to work, so they pay people to show up and clock in. We do this for 30-40 years and go to a nursing home or die. That is pretty much the workplace. We don't go to work to be "individuals" or to be happy with ourselves. Every social animal species has a dominance hierarchy. Every company, HOA, social club, or government has a dominance hierarchy. It is the way of the world, everyone somewhere has to answer to a boss. It is what it is.
@simaancheno
Ай бұрын
@@user-nu8in3ey8c That's BS, animals don't have hierarchies, have leaders. Animals don't have big structures, they have little islands that try to protect and there is no inheritance in the animal world. Also, they don't accumulate wealth for the sake of it and don't aim at ruling for the sake of it. You also seem to have misread my previous comment. But anyway, things don't change because of people like you.
@annastone5624
Ай бұрын
Yes but if that dominance hierarchy, is also, as it should be, a competence hierarchy,. then it can actually be very fulfilling.. Where the problem comes, is incompetence, people not pulling their weight, no one making those people accountable for that. Good workers carrying the load of the weak ones etc that’s where all the misery comes from. With a decent amount of meritocracy and good management, there should be no reason for the workplace to be a place of misery.
@jamespn
Ай бұрын
The best solution is retirement.
@butchdetrey5911
Ай бұрын
So right
@Blurufoodaz
Жыл бұрын
Better leave that office …. Don’t compromise in a toxic environment
@RichGilbert
Жыл бұрын
That seems to be the best bet. 👍
@user-nu8in3ey8c
2 ай бұрын
Good luck, every place I have ever worked is political. We don't have jobs to make friends, we have a job to get a paycheck (some to get status and a paycheck). Its called work because it sucks and no one wants to do it, its why they pay you to clock in for x hours every day.
@jebotipasmater
Ай бұрын
I tried fighting them once for 3 years. In the end the owners actually changed half of the leadership (apparently NOT due to office politics). And, you guessed it, NOTHING changed! In fact, it became even worse. I quit soon after.
@azeez8399
Ай бұрын
This is a topic they NEVER teach you in schools.
@PySnek
23 күн бұрын
Of course not. They teach you nearly nothing about life in school.
@mousinius
Ай бұрын
I'm too young to care now, but one day I willl
@echelon8913
Ай бұрын
don’t ever use that mf horn again
@WTHenry2023
Ай бұрын
😂😂😂
@vvolfbelorven7084
Ай бұрын
1v1s before 1veveryone
@TaylorSwiftGleek
26 күн бұрын
Is there any company out there not full of BS politics?
@TheBryanmauro
7 сағат бұрын
Undermine yourself by being a sycophant for too long and you lose your self respect, pride, and soul.
@ironman2326
Ай бұрын
I hear Kermit T Frog 🐸 in your voice, just a little bit. I kind of want to hear an impression.
@chriswalker83cw
Ай бұрын
Just go to work with a MAGA hat.
@andrescientos
Ай бұрын
Quit this video because of the cheesey sound effects
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