"It is not easy working for a tyrant boss", an Administrative Executive friend lamented as she busily sorted the files in her superior's cabinet. She revealed that this wasn't the first time she was doing such mundane tasks as her boss is known to be habitually messy. I could feel her agony of arranging the documents as I have experienced it before. In the past, every time I stared at the huge stack of paperwork, I have this temptation deep down inside to file it all under Miscellaneous, but if only things were that simple!
I was advised before that the more crap you put up with, the more crap you will get. There will be colleagues who pile you with their work and after you accept it, it may just become your responsibility. From the superior's point of view, it is their job to push you to the limit and develop you to your full potential. To avoid being in a situation of drowning in other people's work, the advice was to look busy. You can go anywhere you want if you look serious and carry a file. With such advices circulating around, I have become skeptical of how many people are truly working.
However, at the end of the day, the idea is to work smart, not work hard. Sad but true, it doesn't matter what you do, it only matters what you say you've done and what you're going to do. Most of the time it seems that boot-lickers are fast to rise in the hierarchy. Some superiors, after all, are people who like to have their egos massaged once in a while.
It is said if work was easy, it wouldn't be called work. Sometimes the frustration of office politics may drive you to want to quit. Something to ponder about: Perhaps how balance is restored in the office, is somehow the last person that resigned or was fired will be held responsible for everything that goes wrong.
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