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A colleague asked if I’ve read an article in the papers lately about colleagues. He also asked if I agree with the article, that a colleague is just a colleague. Colleagues cannot be friends as in buddies, because the relationship will eventually snap at one point of time due to some unforeseen circumstances.

Ok, when a colleague asks you this, you have no choice but to be diplomatic. He went on saying that colleague will use each other for their own gains such as promotion and you can only trust yourself.  Well, actually I have always been a strong believer that a colleague is just a colleague. No matter how good and buddy you are to your colleague, I bet that someday when either one gets reward, the other will be envious and rivalry is the evil that go hand in hand with office politika. Its a dog eat dog world after all. I’ve read about the importance of team building motivation activities for staff so that he/she will be able to appreciate the comradeship of the other colleagues. Chinamen company is just different.

There are some exceptional instances where colleagues became good buddies. It just doesn’t happen so often in our life. What rubbish is all this? Thanks for reading.