Work Friends

RedHead Posted: Apr 06, 2005 12:42 PM

Work Friends

Are there cliques at your job?

No i have to say there are no real 'cliques' at my job

Kriss2c Posted: Apr 06, 2005 12:44 PM

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Yes, plenty - but I think it is inevitable in a firm this size.

sarahthegreat Posted: Apr 06, 2005 12:44 PM

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Posted by RedHead

Are there cliques at your job?

No i have to say there are no real 'cliques' at my job

omg! i feel like i work in a high school sometimes. it gets annoying

nov04LIbride Posted: Apr 06, 2005 12:44 PM

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I think so. I am in one. It s-cked when I wasn't.

Goldi1021 Posted: Apr 06, 2005 12:45 PM

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Yes thre are cliques and as much as I hate to say it they are racially divided.

FeliciaDA Posted: Apr 06, 2005 12:45 PM

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Posted by Kriss2c

Yes, plenty - but I think it is inevitable in a firm this size.

Same here. I am still so 'new' here (even though its been 2 years) and some of these ladies have been here forever .. so I'll never fit in, and actually that is fine.

I'm not a part of ANY cliques. At this office I am such a loner here and basically keep to myself

ETA: at my old office I was not really in a 'clique' but everyone knew everyone and I made some of my best friends at that job, whom I still hang out with and love dearly

MrsERod Posted: Apr 06, 2005 12:46 PM

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None here. I actually sit all by my lonesome away from everyone else!!

I guess its better that way.....otherwise my BIIIIIIGGGGGGGG Mouth would get me into trouble!!!

nov04LIbride Posted: Apr 06, 2005 12:49 PM

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When I wasn't, work was a nightmare. We'd have staff meetings and I would go to sit down and get a cold look and a, 'That seat is SAVED.' It was horrible. My friends aren't bizotches like those people but at least I have someone watching my back!

TracyInQueens Posted: Apr 06, 2005 12:49 PM

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Posted by Goldi1021

Yes thre are cliques and as much as I hate to say it they are racially divided.

Some.

We have that too, though there are some groups that are divided more among age lines with race not being an issue. I am not really part of a clique but the people I vent to when I need to are not really part of a clique, and we are among the younger teachers in my building. I guess we are part of the 'non-clique' clique.

CherylBooch Posted: Apr 06, 2005 12:54 PM

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Definitley in my office. My boss is the ring leader, and I'm sooo not part of it.
It upsets me somtimes when they all go out to lunch and I'm not invited...

Shorty McBride Posted: Apr 06, 2005 12:56 PM

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I'm not at my job often enough to be 'in' with the other receptionists. They're to catty for me anyway. My only friends at work are 2 50yr old women- I can't tolerate anyone else!

VS11 Posted: Apr 06, 2005 12:57 PM

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In my dept....it is like coming to work to hang out with your friends....and I have about 4 girls that I am very close with and one is a BM..

06NovBride Posted: Apr 06, 2005 12:59 PM

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My job def has cliques. The women here are so catty and backstabbing that sometimes I cannot take it. Thankfully I got promoted in January and now I work in a dept where there's only me and the boss and she's pretty cool. I don't really associate with anyone else now. It's just too much drama.

MrsTC Posted: Apr 06, 2005 01:00 PM

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yes, there def are where I work. A few weird / catty situations have gone on so lately I have been trying to back off, keep to myself and pretty much associate with only a few I know I can trust.

Preshy7 Posted: Apr 06, 2005 01:02 PM

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i work with all guys - they have their own cliques but the good thing is that im included often :)

Donna&Joe708 Posted: Apr 06, 2005 01:06 PM

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Yes, there are definitely cliques. I feel like I'll never be accepted because I've only been here six months and everyone else has been here for many, many years. Plus, I work for the head of the department and feel like no one will ever trust me no matter what I do.

marymoon Posted: Apr 06, 2005 01:08 PM

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I've never worked anyplace big enough to have cliques.

JimmysBride Posted: Apr 06, 2005 01:17 PM

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Oh yes definitely. There are SO many. The worst are the political ones. I guess you can say I am part of one, but only because of the department I work for, not by choice. And I have disassociated myself from the 'main' clique that we used to be a 'sub-clique' of.