Cooperation Vs Competition In Your Workplace?

[mongers]

What's split between cooperation and competition with your fellow colleagues do experience within your workplace ?

At one extreme image a job were your lives routinely depends on the cooperation between your colleagues in the job. At the other end of the continuum is a career where succeeding/getting ahead depends entirely on doing better that or beating your workplace rivals. 

What percentage breakdown best describes what you encounter ?

[Ed Anger]

I fight myself.

[Phillip V]

My career is dependent on the bureaucracy/system; not peers.

[mongers]

My career is dependent on the bureaucracy/system; not peers.

Which doesn't answer the question.

[dps]

In my experience, a lot of people in the workplace are neither competing nor cooperating--they're just taking up space and drawing a paycheck.  And there are some who deliberately fucking things up, not to compete with anyone, but just for the "fun" of causing problems.

[Eddie Teach]

100% competitive. I'm self-employed.

[CountDeMoney]

Always depended on the place, Mongers.  Different organizational cultures all have their unique dysfunctions.

All the talk about law enforcement as a "brotherhood", where everybody has each others' back, is TV and funeral eulogy bullshit.  Between the incompetent and the lazy and the dangerous, there's only a handful of people you can ever rely on--and that includes your supervision--and you just hope they're working that day.  And if you're a civilian, doesn't matter about your competencies or your role, you're still a 2nd-class citizen because you don't have the Junior G-Man Secret Decoder Ring.  REUTERS WHO IS HE

In the performance-driven environment of my last job, where extra incentives over your target performance bonus were unequally distributed from the same limited bucket of cash given to the department, I'd never seen so much sabotage, passive-aggressiveness and backstabbing in my entire life, it would put high school girls to shame.  From August to roughly February,  during the ramp up to performance evaluation time and because your extra bonus amount depended on how much less someone elses' was, it was look the fuck out for the kneecapping, even from people who weren't in your lane.

Academia and healthcare didn't seem so bad from the cooperation perspective.  As long as you knew your place in the caste system vis à vis academic/professional pedigree, you could always get things done with anybody.

Bail bonds was an entirely different story.

[Ed Anger]

I loved the cubicle cliques. SHUN THE NEXT CUBICLE! UNCLEAN!

[mongers]

Always depended on the place, Mongers.  Different organizational cultures all have their unique dysfunctions.

All the talk about law enforcement as a "brotherhood", where everybody has each others' back, is TV and funeral eulogy bullshit.  Between the incompetent and the lazy and the dangerous, there's only a handful of people you can ever rely on--and that includes your supervision--and you just hope they're working that day.  And if you're a civilian, doesn't matter about your competencies or your role, you're still a 2nd-class citizen because you don't have the Junior G-Man Secret Decoder Ring.  REUTERS WHO IS HE

In the performance-driven environment of my last job, where extra incentives over your target performance bonus were unequally distributed from the same limited bucket of cash given to the department, I'd never seen so much sabotage, passive-aggressiveness and backstabbing in my entire life, it would put high school girls to shame.  From August to roughly February,  during the ramp up to performance evaluation time and because your extra bonus amount depended on how much less someone elses' was, it was look the fuck out for the kneecapping, even from people who weren't in your lane.

Academia and healthcare didn't seem so bad from the cooperation perspective.  As long as you knew your place in the caste system vis à vis academic/professional pedigree, you could always get things done with anybody.

Bail bonds was an entirely different story.

Interesting anecdotes. 

[alfred russel]

Overwhelmingly cooperative.

[CountDeMoney]

Overwhelmingly cooperative.

Weirdos.

[Ed Anger]

How unamerican.

[merithyn]

100% cooperative

No reason to be competitive, and lots of benefit to cooperating. One of my favorite things about my place of employment.

[Ed Anger]

Ugh. The workplace should be like the bridge of a Klingon battle cruiser, with the underlings knifing their way to the top. And HR shooting everybody.

[CountDeMoney]

100% cooperative

No reason to be competitive, and lots of benefit to cooperating. One of my favorite things about my place of employment.

You're still relatively new, and your tits aren't threatening enough yet.