Cubicle Confidential
Weekly Advice for the Working Stiff: Having problems with people at work? Does your boss suck? Do your co-workers drive you crazy? Tim McClure and Chris DeSantis are here to help. Each week Tim and Chris take on your most outrageous workplace questions and concerns. Their advice is sometimes spot-on, sometimes salty, and sometimes funny. (Funny, as in “haha” not as in “I’m funny how? I mean funny like I’m a clown? I amuse you? I make you laugh?”) They’re good guys, not Goodfellas.
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Why Can't We Be Friends? Navigating Workplace Friendships
Workplace friendships are the topic of this week’s show. The workplace is a social system--but does that mean that we HAVE to be friends with the people we work with? How much friendship is too much friendship? How much friendliness is too little? Is it okay to be best friends with your boss? Mary and Chris help both the friendless and overly friendly navigate this tricky landscape.
Friendless and Fabulous in Fremont doesn’t want to be friends with their co-workers. Is it wrong to not pursue workplace friendships? Does it make her a Grinch?
I’m Not Your BFF in Baltimore doesn’t want to be best friends with their boss. How do they free themselves from this friendship?
Why Can’t They Be Friends in Wyoming wonders how to navigate two supervisors whose animosity towards each other is causing office friction and ruining morale. Should they encourage the two supervisors to repair their friendship? What to do, what to do…
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Recommended Article: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dont-have-friends-at-work_l_61defa66e4b0ae44b31a40ef?platform=hootsuite
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