Office Politics

In every office environment, there is thing about office politics and grapevine appearing almost everywhere. Just a few days ago, had a gathering with my friends and one of them was mentioning about her office environment especially among the fellow interns. I thought office politics only exist in only Perm staff but among fellow interns who were also students was almost unheard of. For student at intern, we should just stick to our work and do our best, anywhere by having office politics we also don't stand to gain (in terms of monetary and promotions).

Had lunch with my colleague yesterday. This lunch group was the most entertaining of all and of course a free treat from one of the senior staff. He was also from NTU but graduated in the early 2000. He is surprised that culture in NTU have yet to change since his time. There is a lot of similarities in terms of hall experience and of course I bring home a valuable lessons on work life. He was very encouraging in terms of getting a testimonial from my supervisor which was there with us.

He mentioned that for fresh graduates, interviewer will always ask "What makes you different from others?". So he just say, the testimonial make me different from others. We also chatted over our dialect and the different in girls across all dialects. So far over the three weeks intern, it was lunch that I always look forward to. It just take your mind off work just like what my supervisor told me on my first day. "We don't talk work over lunch".