Curious, why did it bother you that you disliked the people you worked with? Couldn’t you just be polite to them and take part in their jokes/socialgames/whatever? They’re paying you handsomely to be there, after all?
One of my brother’s co-workers at Goldman Sachs has actively tried to sabotage his work. (Goldman Sachs runs on a highly competitive “up or out” system; you either get promoted or fired, and most people don’t get promoted. If my brother lost his job, his coworker would be more likely to keep his.)
Curious, why did it bother you that you disliked the people you worked with? Couldn’t you just be polite to them and take part in their jokes/socialgames/whatever? They’re paying you handsomely to be there, after all?
Or was it a case of them being mean to you?
No, just loathsome. And the end product of what I did and finding the people I was doing it for loathsome.
I dunno, “loathsome” sounds a bit theoretical to me. Can you be specific?
One of my brother’s co-workers at Goldman Sachs has actively tried to sabotage his work. (Goldman Sachs runs on a highly competitive “up or out” system; you either get promoted or fired, and most people don’t get promoted. If my brother lost his job, his coworker would be more likely to keep his.)
I don’t understand: he tried to sabotage his cowerker’s work, or his own?
CronoDAS’s Brother’s Co-worker tried to sabotage CronoDAS’s Brother’s work.
“Hamlet, in love with the old man’s daughter, the old man thinks.”
Not without getting political. Fundamentally, I didn’t feel good about what I was doing. And I was just a Unix sysadmin.
This was just a job to live, not a job taken on in the furtherance of a larger goal.