Common traps at the workplace

[acri1]

Leave as much of a paper trail as you can. Email and text as much as possible.

I'm well known at my job for still having emails back to 2014 they won't catch me slipping

 

[Phantum]

People always say I don't come to work to make friends. You also shouldn't come to work to make enemies.


Get everything in email

 

[Gloxina]

I learned in those situations its best to milk it for all it‘s worth and use it to your advantage while still being able to maintain plausible deniability

I know for a fact there’s women at my job that find me attractive and I use it to my benefit

As a woman, not mad at it Lol

 

[Canon]

A common trap I'll add is DO NOT WORK FOR A FAMILY OWNED COMPANY.

learned this one early in my career

 

[Gloxina]

I'm well known at my job for still having emails back to 2014 they won't catch me slipping

LOVE IT!

These cacs hate me because I’m the same way

I’m the Black person they “leave alone” because they realized I’m chill and quiet…and observe everything. By the time they tried to play stupid games they got their card pulled and fell back


My fam was telling us about how to move through the corporate world since we were kids.

 

[Gloxina]

Do not accept work colleagues as friends on social media especially if you post your life outside work.

I know people who called in sick to go to festivals, events etc and been snitched on by their so called 'work friend'.

I don’t know WHY ppl do that shyt.

I don’t want anyone from work in my personal business. They be like “aren’t you on social media??”

“Yes, I am. ”.




That shyt is insane to me.

 

[Gloxina]

Getting too comfortable and telling them about your 2nd job or side hustle.

I told my boy not to talk to his manager about his rental properties. He did anyway. A few months later. She tells him, she think he's more serious about his rental properties than his job. This is a 100k job.

DUMB!!!

 

[Black Panther]

Any office job that "doesn't like to see people with their phones out" is a temp job.


If I can't answer a phone call from my girl without being stared at, I'm not staying long. I'd rather not try to advance within a company that treats employees like children.

 

[Tetris v2.0]

As someone who worked in HR for like 7 years

"Dynamic and fast-paced" generally means the department is a clusterfukk and your job responsibilities are made up as they go. Basically, yesterday's price ain't today's price except it's your job duties lol

 

[Gloxina]

If you drive a clean foreign car or a car nicer than your co workers DO NOT LET THEM SEE IT..especially if you Black and ESPECIALLY if you are young and Black..

They will start hating and attitudes will change towards you everytime on some “who does he think he is” or “how can he afford that when I can’t” type shyt

Yep!

I got the concept of keeping an old car/back up to drive to work from the men I know. Never understood until I got a little older.

A few of my aunts drive their Benzes to work, and their offices are filled with white folks who can’t stand them (because they are about their business and worth every penny they are paid). It only got worse when ppl would randomly see their cars.

Some of the men in my family will have their own Benz or bimmer at home in the driveway, driving some older car to work.
Cacs don’t know they have a new luxury car ever 3 years parked in front of a million dollar house.


Don’t EVER let your colleagues come to your home, ESPECIALLY if you’re a home owner. And don’t let them see your luxury ride unless you’re in a position where it’s undeniable that you’re making great money and can spend it.
They can understand a VP, CFO, CTO, etc pulling up in a nice ride, but if you aren’t up there, they’ll start making assumptions about what else you do for money.

Hell, even as a woman, just walking in with a new luxury bag will have these white women talking behind your back and asking you prodding questions.

 

[Shadow King]

Thank God I don't and never worked corporate.

 

[Gloxina]

The gossip shyt is weird. You can get so far by just letting other people speak, shaking your head and keeping it pushing.

I legit don’t think it’s one person that can say a bad thing about me at any of my jobs because I come in, work hard, and stfu. If I talk 9 times out of 10 it’s about sports and if somebody want to share something with me, I listen and never speak about it again, primarily because I couldn’t care less.

People are quick to run and share you business with someone else so the benefit of being quiet is 1. No one can spread your business and 2. If people choose to tell you theirs and then they figure out you ain’t say nothing they thing you really for them when in reality you don’t gaf.

Exactly how I’ve survived.


“I feel like you’re really good at keeping secrets”.

“Oh well you don’t tell anyone anything anyway.”

Last 2 comments I got in the last couple weeks.

I’m a vault, simply because I don’t care and I don’t want to be involved in ANY drama.
But it keeps me safe because when everything blows up, my name is never in it

 

[8WON6]

"teamwork make the dream work"="we give all the actual work to the hard working people and let the loud suck ups bullshyt all day"

 

[Vandelay]

The work friends thing, you can make friends at work, in fact it's one of the reasons my career started to lift off. You just have to know what boundaries not to cross, even if folks get a little too intrusive and try to pry it out of you.

• Personal endeavors
• Deeper relationship shyt or who you're smashing
• Politics... I break this one often tho, ngl
• Family shyt

I have made the mistake of disclosing some outside personal stuff, but came to realize later I said too much. No one used it against me, but it became a little smarmy joke is what I'm saying.

The messing with chicks at work, you can do that too, but I wouldn't with someone you directly work with. Hopefully, she's mature. And you can only do it once, unless it's a joke job. You'll get a really bad rep that will inevitably impact your perception for your day to day work. if you're not certain, keep it simple and don't do it. But people meet and fukk everyday at work, 95% of the time without consequence.

I'd say one trap not to fall into, it's an obvious one, but I don't think enough people take heed...don't work for a bad boss. All their lack of good will or negative traits will get generally projected onto you and slow your career.

 

[Fillerguy]

As an hourly don't ever find yourself being the only one who knows how to do a critical task.

Your manager will try and block you from promotions or transfers.

Dats where I'm at now. I'm like the last one left before my departments restructuring over the last 7 years. I pretty much know everything and my salary reflects it. But now we have this new supervisor who don't know shyt so if I leave the department damn near collapses. I'm trying to get my financial licenses but the approvals are dragging they're feet.