You want to know how to get your coworkers to like you? Stop complaining.
We all have that one person at work who does nothing but complain from the moment they clock into the moment they leave. They are at every job we've ever had, that one person whose life is always worse than yours, and who won't be satisfied until they have told you every awful detail about their awful life.
No one wants to hear it. We all have to be there and no one cares how much worse you feel or how much harder life is for you. Most of us just want to go to work, do our jobs, and go home.
Believe me, I get it. Work stinks most of the time. No one actually enjoys work and many of us can pass the time gossiping in between tasks, but hearing for the thousandth time how much harder it is for you to work so many shifts is annoying. It's frustrating to listen to you complain when the rest of us go through the same things or worse. It makes work harder when you are consistently bringing down the mood. No one wants to hear it.
Honestly, people take notice of your complaining. Higher ups hear what you're saying, and it will get back to them whether or not you complain in their presence. People talk and you don't want your co-workers to start complaining about you. All it does is give your bosses a terrible impression of you. Why would they want to promote someone who appears to hate their job?
Here's my advice: keep the complaints to yourself, or save them for after work. I don't mind grabbing a drink with you to complain about work every once in a while. We all have bad days and it's okay to complain, but you don't want to make a habit of it. The more you complain the more irritating you become to everyone around you. So save it for after work, but don't force your coworkers to listen to it. We're paid to work, not to be your therapist.
Keep the complaining to a minimum and your coworkers will thank you for it!
Pro Tip: Keep it off social media, nothing good ever comes from a whiny tweet...
