Or Hardly Working: Cliquefest

Cliques are becoming an annoying but growing trend in my office bldg. I hate the way grown men and women feel the need to form groups with the sole purpose of excluding others. The way it works here, is that people congregate by workgroup.
The most annoying of them are the customer service cronies. I didnt pay too much attention to them until they began gathering in the employee breakroom area during lunch.

Don't get me wrong. I dont mind people developing friendships in the workplace, but when they begin to make others uncomfortable, then I do have a problem.

Anyway, back to the workplace gathering:

There's only one room on the entire floor where you can get a snack or drink from a vending machine, sit down for a spell and use the microwave. The CS clique has decided to boguard the room for more than an hour every day. They take up all the seats at the table and make it really uncomfortable to stay in the room while my frozen lunch is heating in the microwave.

Why is it uncomfortable? Because every time I walk in, they pause their talking and then turn and stare at me as I take my food out of the freezer. Once I place it in the oven and walk out, they begin talking again. Its really weird and unsettling.

I thought I left highschool behavior behind, but I guess I was wrong.
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Guru Rant: Work is no different than high school

For all college grads who have just landed your first "real" job, don't think that you have actually stepped into a world without the petty bullshit of high school.

If anything, high school is the perfect time to come to understand people and the way of the world.

Think about it, if people are still running in "cliques," starting rumors and spreading gossip about others, treating school like a fashion show, and engaging in downright heinous love triangles that rival those of the trashiest novellas at the ages of 14-18, how much more will they have changed 5-7 years later?

The Gurus hate to rain on anyone's parade, but we are here to let you know the real deal about life in Corporate America. There's just as much backbiting, kissing ass, swapping sex partners, and forming alliances that occurs in high school. Only difference is now you actually get paid while living/witnessing the drama.

Our advice, open your own business!!!

Sorry to burst your bubbles...

-the Gurus