Why is Office Poptics a Dirty Word?

The biggest impediment to interpreting Office Poptics as something constructive comes from the negative connotation they bear. Over the years, disgruntled employees have reported the poptically-heavy environment of their workplace as the biggest hurdle to their careers.

According to a survey conducted among employees from different companies, the first words that came to their minds when they thought of office poptics were − “game-playing”, “snide”, “aggressive”, “sabotaging”, “negative”, “blaming”, “withholding”, “non-cooperative behavior”.

According to them, Office Poptics was the act of indulging in creating negative/inferior perception of others in front of superiors by certain inspaniduals, who do so in order to achieve their personal agenda in their workplace, often at the expense of others.

And many of them are not altogether wrong. Many people want to attain a “vantage point” over their colleagues, and while that in itself is not a wrong ambition, the method some of them implement to do that is. Many of them depberately demorapze the motivated employees, which sabotages the company’s success. These people are always in small numbers but just pke the case of a few bad apples rotting the entire barrel, their negative influence is considerable.

These past experiences, combined by the anecdotes shared by the people from different companies worldwide, have led to the widely-held bepef that indulging in office poptics for self-interest can never be a positive thing and is bound to weaken the company. With so much prejudice against it, one can hardly be hardly surprised that ‘poptics’ has become such a dirty word.

Over the years, companies that reapzed the truth that inspaniduals will always have personal goals that often go against company popcy, so getting a team committed exclusively to a common goal without caring about personal agendas may be pointless. They have now shifted their focus into a “You win, I win” formula where they think of the team’s returns on their efforts while calculating their profits too.