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When people talk of work, I've found that when they aren't complaining about how bad their day at work was, they complaining about how little they are paid and how about all the bills that need paying. Managers and owners of companies aren't any different, contrary to popular belief.

With money the driving force of today's world, employer and employee interaction is based primarily on a business front; to deal with the day's demands in priority before personal affairs. If you walk into any law firm, manufactory, self-employed business, you'll find that there are little to no tolerance for favouritsm, based on who gave the manager the most insincere heart-felt praise like you would have in primary school. The focus you will see right away is on the business at hand, which is to keep their clients happy.

Businesses are the same wherever you go: In order to stay afloat, they need to produce quality merchandise, that consumers both find enjoyable and want to buy again. If they don't, it causes a domino effect that ultimately leads to the downfall of the company: Customers lose interest, marketing finances go down the drain, employees are laid off, and managers will find themselves without a business to run.

To get ahead in the work force, it should be based on a mixture of your qualifications, skill, quality, responsiblity, worthwhileness and earnest work, putting your full effort into each individual project, instead of trusting your career in your unwavering belief that you personal looks, relationship with your employer and insincere queries about how their wife and family are will last forever.

Flattery at a selfish gain serves little to impress anyone, and even less to advance beyond what you are certifically qualified to handle in any job. If every employer advanced their staff base on every sweet word they were told, they would find themselves without a company, and less of a reason why they would need to hire anyone.

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