Its up to you to make it just and fair for you.

Its a tough world out there. People take credit for the work of others. People mostly look out for their own careers, often at the expense of the place where they work. The self-promoters get rewarded. Coworkers come to the office each day with a driving agenda to protect and then expand their turf. People trade-off your rights and opportunities, and take what they want at your expense.

Some of the individuals competing for advancement bend the rules of fair play or ignore them completely. There is a lot of zero-sum competition for status, jobs, power and control. With more well-qualified people competing for each step on the organizational ladder all the time, rivalry is intense and only getting more so as there are fewer and fewer positions.

No point complaining about this or wish the world were different. People often conspire in their own deception that their professional and personal world is a just and fair place, and falsely believe that if they perform and behave well, things will take care of themselves. A belief in a just world is self-delusional, and is often used to transfer blame, and justify self-inaction. Just get over it and yourself.

So welcome to the real world-not necessarily the world we want, but the world that exists.

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