Office tricks you can avoid, but must know

1. Never trust your colleagues. No matter how friendly they seem.
2. Don’t show off anything to colleagues; better to complain about yourself than to flaunt happiness, as it may bring misfortune.
3. Don’t offend the favorites around your boss.
4. There’s a type of person who acts like a dog to superiors, a wolf to subordinates, and a ghost to colleagues. Yet, they are called high emotional intelligence.
5. Making friends with colleagues at work is like picking candy out of a trash heap; if you find candy, it’s luck. Finding poop is no surprise.
6. The most exhausting thing is often not the work itself but the people you encounter at work. Holding a salary while doing the work of two people and listening to three fools’ commands.
To the boss
1. The boss is always right. Don’t try to reason with them, especially when you lack ability.
2. When the boss paints a big picture for you, just listen and don’t take it seriously. Never question or expose it.
3. Absolute obedience to the boss’s demands unless you have solid skills and they must rely on you.
4. Don’t reveal your resources and connections to the boss.
5. The boss is just a division of labor. No need to bow and scrape; just do your job well.
6. If you don’t do your work well, admit it humbly. Don’t complain; in the workplace, ability matters. If you fail, it’s because your ability is insufficient. The more you explain, the more it shows you lack ability.
To work
1. Be on time for work, leave on time, don’t be late, don’t leave early. This is the most basic quality of a worker.
2. If someone is quite capable but doesn’t get ahead, it’s probably because of good character.
3. The greater the ability, the more problems there are. Play dumb when necessary.
4. No friends at work. Colleagues will never become friends; say less, do more.
5. Short-term interactions depend on appearance; long-term on personality; lifelong relationships depend on character.
6. Even colleagues you get along with and feel close to are fragile in the face of利益冲突.
7. When in power, don’t be too arrogant. Three years in one place, three years in another, so that when you lose power, others won’t kick you when you’re down.