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6 colleagues you must befriend right away!
These are people who make your work life tolerable. Find out how!
Kudos to your smart work and the inspiring ideas that are keeping your motivation levels high!
But, just a second, are you keeping up well with your colleagues?
As you rise up the success ladder, you never know when you might need their help.
Here are six different work friends, who will help you at different levels at work; make sure you're in good terms with each of them:
1. The intern
Has a person recently joined your office as an intern?
Are you treating him/her well?
Well, if you are not, then better do it.
Because if not today, but may be two or three years down the line, you might eventually meet him as a colleague at your dream job, and then stuffs would be easy for you because of the equation you share with him/her today.
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2. The Gossip
In every office, there will be at least one person who likes to keep track of all the gossip.
If you refuse to be friends with this person, you are probably losing out on many exciting hot news and updates that you might not receive via office e-mail.
You can occasionally have a word with the gossip person to know things like who's being promoted or who's put in their papers.
You never know, these trivial updates might even help you improvise your strategies at work and shape your career.
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3. The IT Guy
Getting friendly with the IT person helps a lot, at least in getting things fixed up fast and utilising the same time to complete work tasks perfectly.
You would also get a few handy tips on what to do or what to avoid so that you're not wasting time reporting and fixing technical snags all day along.
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4. The Manager
From all the updates on latest job openings to what's happening inside the office -- talks of mergers, acquisitions -- a manager knows all.
And if you are friends to him, then that news would come to you also.
The manager is even supposed to ensure that his team does all the good work and they get all the necessary resources to get it done, so it's not at all a bad idea to have a manager as your BFF.
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5. The Opposite Sex
If you are a girl, then befriend a male friend and vice versa.
Doing this would help you at various levels.
So, whenever you find yourself in a difficult situation, try getting the perspective of a trusted co-worker of the opposite sex; you might get better advice.
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6. The Assistant
Last but not the least, another must-have office friend is the assistant to your boss.
Your boss's assistant is an organised person who has a plan about your boss's schedule.
Do you need any more reason to be always good with him (or her)?