If you think that all your colleagues are friends and life is all about your job and the family & personal life are taking backseats, it is high time that you think again.
The New York Daily News has reported that people need to avoid the work at times and sleep else their sense of self will erode any time their job disappoints them.
From in.news.yahoo.com:
Your Money columnist Carolyn Kepcher, author of the best-selling book ‘Carolyn 101,’ tells you the top nine areas in which it’s important to maintain a healthy sense of reality:
My boss reads my mind – Lobby for your promotion and take the initiative of talking to your boss about it. Many workers make the mistake of not engaging in any self-promotion at all – and then suffer the crushing disappointment of not receiving a pay raise, or a promotion.
Co-workers are friends – Although you may find friends at work, it’s very important to draw boundaries. Unlike friendships or romances gone awry, you have no choice but to see your co-workers every single workday.
Salaries are set fairly – It’s your responsibility to negotiate for a higher salary. Employers will pay what they feel they need to pay to hire and keep an employee, and nothing more.
H.R. is here to help me – They will help you, but their true job is to protect the organization. There are certain areas in which it may be best not to seek the H.R. department’s assistance, such as using them as a shoulder to cry on for your every workplace woe.
You aren’t indispensable – Millions of workers learned that their jobs are not as secure as they once thought. Being valuable is realistic, feeling irreplaceable is not.
These eye opening revelations will surely help you see other side of the road, which has been neglected for long.
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