Projection.
HR doesn’t care about you, they care about the company. You should generally be careful with all work relationships to be sure, but this is clearly anti-union propaganda. No good.
I see we’re posting anti union propaganda today
This is exactly what HR wants you to believe.
I’m sorry, Curve Gotti, if you work in that environment.
How much did the Pinkertons pay her to say this?
This sounds like what HR wants you to think about your colleagues. Can’t organise if can’t trust your colleagues.
I am organized and I still am leery.
You don’t need to trust your coworkers to organize. And they will take advantage of you if you work their shift etc and often will not reciprocate. You can acknowledge that coworkers aren’t your friends while understanding that organizing is good for everyone. If someone is gonna try to sabotage your attempts at organizing that’s just how it is but there’s no reason to trust a coworker to pay you back. Also, I’m sorry but if you’re putting people at risk I don’t care how friendly you act to me I’m reporting you.
It is still true though.
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The truth is that all your coworkers are not automatically your friends. You CAN become genuinely good friends with some though.
Agreed. This must be kept in mind. There will be people who enjoy being part of corporate more than they enjoy being good colleagues.
Even tho I disagree, at least I know that I wouldn’t want to work with you.
As a non American professional, allow me to remind you that that’s not the case everywhere. There are company’s and country’s where employees are safe and valued.
There are also managers that are actually interested in knowing the complaints of workers. Many things can be done to improve the situation. (again, as non american)
Also as a non-american, I don’t think I have ever trusted a co-worker in my 15+ years of professional experience. It’s all fun and giggles until they see an opportunity to climb the ladder, and then colleagues will throw you under the bus without even blinking. Best to be safe than sorry… Also, living is a miserable existence.
I don’t know, my co-workers are my friends. Must be a shit place to work if everyone there is a lone wolf.
As an HR professional
If you want to have fun, go watch your HR employees on linkedin. They frequently goes directly into HR from jobs requiring no skills at all.
They are complete tools.
Sounds like you work somewhere shitty. Most of my coworkers mind their own business because they are too busy working to do anything else. Only time I’ve seen people “snitch” was to throw poor management under the bus, or corroborate sexual harassment complaints. And I’m not going to complain about that.
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I disagree. My coworkers wouldn’t generally snitch for the hell of it. That would take effort and they are much too focused on actual work to care. Plus, stirring the pot carries risk.
However, they and I certainly would not stick out my neck for a coworker. But that’s not what this post is suggesting. It appears to suggest active hostility is the norm. In that case, find a different workplace.
As a team leader let me tell you that coworkers “snitching” is useless anyway (at least here in Germany). Just play the mobbing card and their testimony is out the window.
What’s mobbing?
Bullying in german
Though most often applied in contexts where the bullying is done by an entire group of people, usually to completely isolate the targeted person.
Between the social policy wars they stoke with the media and political parties they fully own, and the celebrated cut-throat work culture they demand with the promise of slightly larger crumbs, the owners have ensured we, their livestock, stay at each other’s throats so we never look up at our common enemy.
Just how they want it. Snitches are class traitors doing their master’s work against their own interests.
Oooohhhh I’m telling on you!!!
Please do if my punishment is summary execution.
