Do not be carried away because you’re wearing that company’s badge. Companies have no kids, only families do! Work hard and offer value but stay professionally focused.
Never fall into the illusion that your office is your family. Don’t be carried away when HR managers say “Welcome to the family”.
Your office can never be your family. Workers are like villagers who gather in village squares with shared purposes to accomplish tasks together.
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In your family, you have unalloyed rights. But in that square, your efforts are noted but the tasks can if necessary move ahead without you.
Change your attitude at work; you’re nobody’s kid. Families do not throw kids to the streets during recessions or bad quarters as companies do!
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Family? It’s incomparable, no debate there. Family is the only place you do not need to prove anything before you are accepted and supported, and you are never discarded, no matter how mediocre you become. The support is original, unconditional and undiluted, the one you get from work and other places are conditional.
Nothing in this world should ever be compared a family, because they will fail you, but even when your family doesn’t have the resources to support you, they still see you as one of their own, that on its own is priceless.
If you carry your work on your head and destroy your family bond because of it, well you have lost everything, when it’s time to reduce headcount for improved bottom line, your name might still pop up..