One other thing I would add is to *expect* that many people will be nice to you in front of your face, but cut you down behind your back. I’m not saying it always happens, but just don’t be surprised if it does.

Often times, in fact, it will be the ones that are the nicest to you in front of your face that are actually saying crap about you to their co-workers behind your back.

As you said in your article, if that bothers you because you have a need for people to like you, it will really tick you off when you find out what certain people are really saying about you behind your back.

You really have to just learn that it’s really none of your business what they think about you. Trying to run a company by trying to do what you think will make your employees happy all the time is the path to bankruptcy.