Inter-Office Competition is Bad for Business
Ever since I’ve noticably taken over more business relationships and been excelling in my new-ish role on the team, Alexus has taken it all up to it’s now all down to competition. Competition can be a fickle thing, especially in the corp office setting. Can be a good thing if all parties are aware and all for it, may the best man win attitude and all that. Creates extra energy in the office and inspires certain types of personalities. Or, it can take another route and cause some serious issues amongst team members.
After becoming a real estate analyst, Alexus has been viewing it all now as competition; who gets what business relationship, who fucks up what report/presentation/view from the rest of the team. She’s tried a few times to bring out the big guns and put me on front street, just to have it all blow up (hilariously) back in her face and in front of team members. This probably all leads more into why she hates me, but is that really my fault? No. She’s just not intelligent enough to fully think through everything before she pulls out her guns and draws the crowd together. I can share some of those blow out stories in another post.
And this is the bad part of competition in the office. Some people take it as all personal and need to attack at any front they can fight on. Swinging at anything and everything is never a good fighting strategy, and the good ones know this. If you’re going to fight in the office you must do it intelligently and not obviously, unless you want the other team members to know your intentions and most likely not take your side. Alexus goes the immature route as well in talking shit to others and see if anything sticks on the other side. If she gets any opened ears she continues with those individuals (insert middled ages woman) and it becomes something to bond over and a topic over lunches (so I guess, you’re welcome ladies....?).
In reality, there is no compeition. No, Im not that cocky. The Bossman made communicated to both Alexus and I that there isn’t just 1 spot for promtion between us, but whoever does the work, put in the effort, blah blah blah. So in my mind, game over. Let’s be at least respectful and friendly in the office and do our work and we can both get there. Nope. Game on.
But that’s her problem. She’s now spending a lot of time attempting to put my on front street and talking shit behind my back instead of putting in the time and effort into the work. Clearly, this is all to my benefit. But I am splitting over it a bit as it’s all come to my attention what she is doing/trying to do and it makes me mad and want to get back at her. But as I just said, in doing that I am gonig down her road and fucking up my own game. However, I’m half into this corp America shit for the game amongst people. So I need to take the emotion out of what I want to do and start strategizing the proper way. With that; do I setup my own traps or let her walk into her own traps over and over again....? Decisions decisions....