The other day, a colleague at my workplace said that if I didn’t help him, he could harm my job. I’m aware that there’s mutual competition, but such a threat genuinely scares me. It’s deeply unsettling for me that someone I consider a friend would do that.
The missing thing in this title is this: if you take everyone’s burden out of fear, you’re actually compromising your own job. Be a bit colder; saying yes to everything isn’t being a good worker ![]()