The greatest career advice you can receive is to get along with your co-workers. After winning the interview, you must perform at your optimal level the work you were hired to do. You must put your best efforts forward to adhere to the qualifications and standards set by your boss and the company for which you are employed. Getting along with your co-workers come second to your ability to do your job to the best of your ability and to do an honest day's work for which you were hired. Your career planning and possibly career change placed you in your new job to do the job and to keep your job by getting along with your co-workers.  Career counselors will agree with the following work related advice.

You do not work in a vacuum, however, and you are expected to communicate with people other than your boss. Communicate with your co-workers and talk about the job and small talk but nothing that can get you fired. Keep the conversation off of personal attacks especially against the boss. A word from you can easily get transported to the boss and if the comments were negative, you could be without a job. Go to work everyday with the knowledge that being the office clown or the office caregiver is not what you were hired to do. Get along with your co-workers cordially and in a way not to endanger or jeopardize your job security.

Do not gossip and spread water cooler rumors. You should not be the go-to person when someone wants to know the latest gossip about a fellow office worker or team mate. The boss does not work in a vacuum either, and if other employees know that you are the gossip mill he is likely to know also. Bosses are also aware that it is difficult to do your job thoroughly and keep up with the office gossip.

 People like to talk about other people and to listen in on personal life stories. That is why the reality shows are so popular. You get to watch someone's personal life and then to actually hear their take on what is going on in their lives. Do not be the office reality show producer. Stay away from the rumor mills and do not start your own reality show on your job site. You need to stay employed and you keep your job by simply going to work everyday, on time, and doing a good job.

Office communications should not be built up on having the latest information on an employee's personal life. Do not get your personal life get involved either by becoming romantically involved with your boss or with another co-worker. You are writing a prescription for job disaster if you flirt with the boss or start romancing one of the other employees. Keep your personal life out of the workplace and you can then concentrate on the job for which you were hired. Work relationships evolve in situational television shows but the writer has thirty minutes of script and then the show is over. Your personal life can get very complicated with endless problems if you include the office ink. You should keep your livelihood and your personal life separate. If is okay to spend build friendships at the office but keep the relationships platonic. Unless you are David Letterman, do not date your co-worker.

The stressful problem about going to work everyday, is the people who you have to communicate with as you perform your job. It is not the co-worker's place to put judgement on another employee when more often than not, all the facts are not known about the situation. If you see that one of these "spammy" conversations are about to start, kindly excuse yourself and do not participate. It is difficult to consume yourself with work to not avail yourself of needless gossip, so you must take the breaks that the company allots employees. Take your scheduled breaks and distance yourself from co-workers who wants to pass their time talking instead of producing. You may very well be the next target of a rumor mill. Get along with your co-workers by adhering to the boss's decisions, the company's standards and being absent from negative office communications.