Low Performers Politicize the Office

I think people who are productive and get the job done and sort of don’t schmooze and play social games at times do experience discrimination. Again, either they get blamed for other peoples’ mistakes or mountains are made out of molehills. I really think it’s that low performers can’t sort of stay at a par level performance and they try to knock out the people who are better than them.

There’s both office politics and then there’s bringing political politics into the office. Office politics is favoring your friends, family, people you like over people who are actually doing the job correctly.

Then there’s the case of actually discriminating against someone for their real or imagined held political positions or ideology, which is increasing due to the internet. The lower performers who desire to knock off better performers are really the only reason people bring up politics in the office. It’s not the moral values garbage.