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2008/10/11 17:05:00 41805


The survey shows that there are different opinions about workplace friends.

The reporter interviewed some working people last week, asking them to talk about their understanding of workplace friendship through their personal experience.


Chinese style


Appearances: Fang Jie

Position: a staff member of a public relations company.

Friends become boss

Friendship goes with the wind.

When your best friend becomes your boss, you may be delighted that he wins, and think that since you are a good friend, you will surely achieve better results in your work together, and your friends will be more iron after war.

But in fact, when friends become bosses, friendships often develop subtle chemical changes.

Fang Jie, who works in a public relations company, often complains about her immediate superior, that is, her former friend.

She was an alumni from a university with her friend's boss. After graduation, she came to this large public relations company. Two people with the same learning background naturally became good friends.

They used to go shopping together and make plans for planning cases. Two people worked very hard.

But since a friend was promoted to be her immediate boss, she found that the boss always sent her to help with some errands, such as going out for lunch at noon, taking something in the afternoon, and driving out at night.

Another time, she had just finished a project and was so tired that she had to go shopping with her friends, and bought a lot of things to help her. It was like a porter!

The two friends who used to be friends were nothing. Fang Jie even said that a good friend could be called out, but now she could not bear it. She said that a friend's boss made him lose face.

Fang Jie felt that the friendship between the two people had disappeared. She said, "there is no real friendship in the company. You and your colleagues are not competitors, they are mutual use, or they are partners at most.

Anyone who tries to find real friendship in the company can only hurt himself in the end.

Appearances: Li Wei

Position: real estate planning

Outspoken maintenance

My friendship with my boss

Li Wei, who was planning in a Real Estate Company, told reporters that his colleagues were his best "psychological counselors". Whenever he met with unpleasant things, he would go to tea and chat with his colleagues who had good relations after work.

He said that when he was in trouble at work, he told his friends that they did not know the inside story, and rarely talked about the crux of the problem. For their family members, they would increase their psychological burden; and for colleagues' friends, they could quickly find the crux of the problem and the way to solve it.

And Li thinks that the true friendship will not change because of the change of status, so when his colleague and friend become a boss, he tries to turn the upper and lower relationships into a new kind of friendship.

For this reason, he has made a lot of efforts, and the most important point is to speak out without any problems.

Li Wei feels that the relationship between friends and subordinates is sometimes like marriage, which needs to be managed and maintained. The most important thing is communication.

Once, the boss asked him to come up with a new sales plan in three days. Li Wei thought that it would take at least a week to complete the plan, and it would be difficult to meet the requirements in the rush.

For this reason, Li sat together with his superiors and opened their hearts to each other. As a result, his friend accepted his advice.

In addition to communication, Li Wei also has the principles of being friends with his superiors. One of them is to leave a secret space for the other person. He can not be told that he or she is going to tell you something about his plans or some of the company's secrets because he is a good friend, and he never takes the initiative to inquire about these things.

Now, as the right hand of his friend's boss, he works hard for the company's business. He says he is satisfied with the relationship between the two people.

Appearances: Du Yu

Position: head of a large pharmaceutical company.

"True feelings" after drinking

Leaked by friends

As a matter of fact, a colleague can certainly be a friend, and he should have more common language because he is in the same job.

However, these innocent ideas were shattered after Du Yu set foot in his post.

Du Yu told reporters that when he first arrived at a large pharmaceutical company, he worked well with a colleague in the Department. The two of them were from abroad. They shared the house together, went to work together, and discussed work together.

With the efforts of two people, the company's performance has gone up substantially, and has been appointed as the probationary supervisor. It is said that Du Yu will soon be promoted to department manager.

Their relationship with friends who shared their joys and sorrows grew deeper.

After a drink, Du Yu told his colleague a dream -- studying abroad.

But after a while, he noticed that the attitude of the leaders had changed slightly. Some of the things he should be responsible for had been handed over to others, and the appointment of the department manager had never been heard of, and the boss did not mention it.

Puzzled, he inquired into the trouble of his own words, and the "true confession" after his drink was unintentionally told by his colleagues, but also to the head of the company.

This matter, though not damaging the relationship between Du Yu and his colleagues, can never be spun out, so at last he concluded that a colleague should not be a friend. There is no problem in his daily life and eating and drinking. But it is best not to involve too much work related topics, so as to avoid unnecessary trouble, and colleagues can not become intimate friends.


Appearances: Meng Hua

Position: quality manager of a mobile phone manufacturing company.

Viewpoint: of course, there are brothers in the workplace!

A friend in need is a friend indeed.


Do the same in the workplace!

Meng Hua is the backbone of the quality department of a famous multinational mobile phone manufacturing company.

So far, he has served five companies, including American companies, Finland companies, German companies and Japanese companies.

"The reason why I ran so many companies is entirely because of a person, the boss of my first company in the United States, who we never knew from now on, and worked with him. I feel very happy. After he went there these years, I would like to follow if he invited me to go with him.

Besides, if I am on a business trip, the elderly at home will be in trouble if he gives him a phone call.

We have developed from the friendship in the workplace to the friendship of our friends.

So, I believe there is real friendship in the workplace.

"Everyone can work together, except for the same interests, the most important thing is that the heart is very special."

Xiao Meng said that he remembered that when he was first promoted to be a leader of a department in the first service company, he represented the Department one day.

At the conference, the representative of the marketing department was his later friend, because there were many loopholes in the quality test of a mobile phone. After the listing, the repair rate was very high, which caused the sales of other products of the company to be affected in the market, and criticized the work attitude of quality monitoring very severely.

These criticisms were the first to represent Mr Meng's face on behalf of the Department.

At the end of the meeting, the representative of the market department took the initiative to find Xiao Meng, and apologized for his harsh wording at the meeting in the morning.

Xiao Meng said that there would be any problems in the future, hoping to communicate at the first time, and solve the problem in the bud, or be able to control it within a small range.

As a result, the two of them went on working in this way, and their friendship grew day by day.

"We are completely built up in the workplace. There is no qualitative difference between workplace friendship and friendship in life."

Xiao Meng said.


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