Some unwritten rules about corporate behaviour: If you get promoted to a position above your colleagues, then you should no longer have personal relations with them.
First, accept invitations to their homes; but reciprocate only with group invitations - then find excuses not to associate with them at all.
Also, you will no longer associate with your old gang during coffee breaks - you are always "too busy". They will have to understand you now have a different role in the company.
If you are a married man, then it may be OK to let her take more time in this transition process - remember that she isn't as familiar with the office codes as you are.
Break away gradually, but eventually reduce all contacts to office hours. Recognize the simple fact of office life that the higher you go, the fewer friends you'll have in the company.
I guess you had some inkling of these things, but did you fully understand the brutal reality of this coded system?
One may ask what this code of behaviour is good for. And here is an answer: Take the story of the two office clerks who were doing a lousy job. They happened to be great friends with the manager of that department.
Their sloppy work lost the company $40,000. The manager was told to crack down. He wouldn't or couldn't. So the two workers plus the manager got fired. He refused to learn where his job began and friendships ended.
First, accept invitations to their homes; but reciprocate only with group invitations - then find excuses not to associate with them at all.
Also, you will no longer associate with your old gang during coffee breaks - you are always "too busy". They will have to understand you now have a different role in the company.
If you are a married man, then it may be OK to let her take more time in this transition process - remember that she isn't as familiar with the office codes as you are.
Break away gradually, but eventually reduce all contacts to office hours. Recognize the simple fact of office life that the higher you go, the fewer friends you'll have in the company.
I guess you had some inkling of these things, but did you fully understand the brutal reality of this coded system?
One may ask what this code of behaviour is good for. And here is an answer: Take the story of the two office clerks who were doing a lousy job. They happened to be great friends with the manager of that department.
Their sloppy work lost the company $40,000. The manager was told to crack down. He wouldn't or couldn't. So the two workers plus the manager got fired. He refused to learn where his job began and friendships ended.
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