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Workplace Reality Check: You Can’t Be Everyone’s Best Bud

August 9, 2016

Via: Workforce

I’ve become a consultant since I started writing this blog.

I don’t mind. People have always told me their problems, and me being me, I usually have a solution. So when a friend’s friend who reads the blog told me the following story, I warned her in advance — I’m going to write about this. For narrative purposes we will call her Summer.

So, Summer started a new job. You know how it is. You try to make friends, get the lay of the land, do your job, the usual. Starting off on the right foot, Summer spoke to everyone, and almost everyone spoke back. The one woman who didn’t approached later.

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