[Madtown]

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A bit of advice: if you're new to the working world, feel your way around situations carefully, because there is every type of incest and politics going on. Don't think that doing the right thing and being a good employee is always going to matter; often the most important thing is picking your battles carefully.

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I'm trying to decide whether it's good or bad that I've spent extensive undergrad time in a student newspaper with a similar atmosphere of incest and politics. That's always been the one part of it I hated, but maybe it's prepared me to navigate a similar real-life situation a bit better.

Are all offices this way? Someone please tell me no.