I'll give an example from my past at grad school.
There was a community fridge. I ate a professor's food once because I got back from the gym mid-day and was hungry. Word got back to prof. I took the professor out to dinner a couple weeks later to "make up" for it.
Later on, I got in trouble for showing up high to class and being a general brat, and during my disciplinary hearing they brought up me stealing the prof's food. I told them, "but I bought him an entire nice meal at an awesome restaurant to make up for a half sandwich" & they basically said it didn't matter.
Nothing much ended up with me getting in trouble because I was in the top 5% of my class academically-speaking. But the moral of the story is that only the bad deeds get remembered. Even if you make amends, it will be the previous bad deeds that get brought up time & time again to justify this-or-that. Sorta like no good deed goes unpunished.
I mean, it is what it is. Just move ahead and blow 'em away with stellar performance, and don't forget to keep a rap sheet about how all your coworkers and superiors fuck-up and don't hold their own. The more evidence the better, and it will come in handy one day.
There are no true friendships in bureaucracies.
There was a community fridge. I ate a professor's food once because I got back from the gym mid-day and was hungry. Word got back to prof. I took the professor out to dinner a couple weeks later to "make up" for it.
Later on, I got in trouble for showing up high to class and being a general brat, and during my disciplinary hearing they brought up me stealing the prof's food. I told them, "but I bought him an entire nice meal at an awesome restaurant to make up for a half sandwich" & they basically said it didn't matter.
Nothing much ended up with me getting in trouble because I was in the top 5% of my class academically-speaking. But the moral of the story is that only the bad deeds get remembered. Even if you make amends, it will be the previous bad deeds that get brought up time & time again to justify this-or-that. Sorta like no good deed goes unpunished.
I mean, it is what it is. Just move ahead and blow 'em away with stellar performance, and don't forget to keep a rap sheet about how all your coworkers and superiors fuck-up and don't hold their own. The more evidence the better, and it will come in handy one day.
There are no true friendships in bureaucracies.