BAD AND GOOD ADVICE IN WORKPLACES

When a person or people advice you, it comes from two (2) places;

Here are the two places:

• Envy or Jealousy 
• Selflessness 

ENVY / JEALOUSY: If you happen to be working in an organization, alot of people may like or may not like you, either because of your appearance, personality, position or for reasons best known to them.

This same set of people may decide to want to be friends with you (they can go as far as lying about themselves) just so they get to know more about you and then bring you down, just when you feel at ease and comfortable around them.

Now this is where envy and jealousy comes to play, when they see that your personality and potential can not be subduedor hindered, they begin to give you bad advice(s) which may not seem bad to an unsuspecting you.

You begin to hear things like;

"you are too good to be here, go get another job, that will treat you better"

"I'm resigning very soon, I think you should leave too" and so much more...

(if you ever leave, come back years later and they will still be in that present job, so don't be fooled).

Now before you leave your present job, kindly consider the following questions;

• How will you ever sustain if you leave this job, before another job comes knocking?
• Have you saved enough?
• Do have another offer on ground before leaving your present job?
• Is the job hindering your potential? etc.

SELFLESSNESS: Some set of people are blessed with good hearts, so they do not mind putting your feelings before theirs and having your best interests at heart at all times.

If you are blessed to have such people around, then you are super lucky.

If you have a selfless colleague(s), they can go ahead to help you in getting juicy job offers with higher pay, just cos they have seen your true potential flourish and they are quite positive that you will deliver if you get a better paying job.

Therefore, you ever find yourself in a working environment and then friend(s) and colleagues begin to advice you for one reason or the other, kindly do yourself this favour - "filter"  whatever advices you get, think, talk and think again.

Lastly, never forget that those advices might just be out of envy, jealousy or selflessness.