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New employee shaking hands with coworkers during an office meeting as part of the onboarding and workplace introduction process.
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In the comments, a couple of Redditors agreed that the new employee was very innocent for the corporate world. They said that by answering the questions honestly, she turned everyone against her. According to some, the corporate “etiquette” requires reading between the lines and understanding things before someone has to explain them.
I'm sure that the situation was ultimately the coworker's responsibility. If an arrangement depends on everyone staying silent, it becomes risky the moment a new employee joins the team. In the end, the employee's honesty exposed the issue, but it was the unofficial work-from-home scheme that created the problem in the first place.
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