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I totally agree. Part of what made things work exceptionally well for over 14 months was the camaraderie that employees and individuals had BEFORE the pandemic. It simply isn't the same with a noob...for you OR them. It's also not fair for them.

I also think younger employees miss out. Someone once told me that, in finance, the older workers (who've paid their dues) preferred a 7am to 7pm day and the work from home Friday while people under 30 absolutely love the rush of working on a deal or transaction all night and sleeping in a conference room....it gives them office cred and something they can use to "one-up" with their friends.

Is that silly and infantile and immature? Maybe...but it is the stuff that often leads to a lucrative career.

Part of what made things work exceptionally well for over 14 months was the camaraderie that employees and individuals had BEFORE the pandemic.

Workplace camaraderie is risk. A smart employee avoids anything other than work with their coworkers because if 2020 taught them anything, it's that coworkers can be spiteful toward conservatives.

Coworkers are not your friends, they're coworkers. It's bad that HR pushes the latest socialist diatribe but it does help identify which of your coworkers would stab you in the back for not drinking the Kool-aid. Many already despise you for your skin color and sexual orientation and you'll find out quickly what they think of you if you tell them you voted for President Trump, own firearms, and follow Free Republic.

Is that silly and infantile and immature? Maybe...but it is the stuff that often leads to a lucrative career.

Not at all. My fondest memories are when we were working on a major RFP. I'm talking millions of dollars on the line for the company and my job was helping to put together an Executive summary for our response as well as helping to put together the Powerpoint for our final presentation. Stakes were high and so we burned the midnight oil and worked weekends to get the best possible presentation put together. If you ever saw the show "Mad Men" - think of the Jaguar presentation as an example. We basically lived and breathed that RFP for weeks.

The victory of winning one of these is especially sweet and my career (and those of my teammates) were greatly enhanced when my team won the RFP for a major bank that resulted in over $5 million in annual revenue for a 5 year period. Since then, we have renewed that contract twice and that account now pulls in close to $10 million a year in revenues.

One top of that, we got a first class trip to a tropical resort out of it with the CEO and some very nice dinners!