theawakenrunner
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A free tip for work (and life, but especially work):
Thank/praise/explicitly show or verbalize appreciation every time a coworker does something helpful or useful, even if that thing is part of their job description. Turn it into a rote habit if possible - this will involve a certain small outlay of effort, but at this point it is mostly just an automatic reaction, like "excuse me" etc.
Even if you don't like the person. Even if they've explicitly been a dick about something else, whatever: dig up a "thank you" or a "fantastic" or some other positive response when they are in fact helpful/useful/etc, again, even if it's "just" because that's what their job is supposed to be.
Don't do this because it's "good". Do it because you're actually contributing to a little reward circuit in their heads that at the very least erodes a little bit at them being unpleasant, even, because down in the human social subconscious things go DING and dump out some reward chemicals when another human recognizes our efforts.
Also because it's nice to be able to point out that you were always polite and appreciative of their work even if they turn out to be your Work Enemy.
(It'll also make people who like you like you more, and incline people who are neutral to you to like you.)
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