What are office politics?

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I think she could also tell that I didn't trust her (I'm sure my words made it obvious) so she told me that her "only motivation is to help you succeed" and that I shouldn't read any further into it because that's all she's trying to do and I'm just overanalyzing it. Of course I believe her only motivation is to make herself look good so she can get promoted. While that does give her motivation to help me it's not the right motivation because her motivating question is always how to maximize sales (the main way our "success" is judged) instead of what is best for the customer and best for my personal development.

I realized I just started ranting about my own specific experiences with office politics so I hope that's okay. I'm not really sure where I was headed with that so I'm just leaving it as-is. Anyway, my advice with office politics is to just try to find a really good manager. They are hard to find but when you do working is much more enjoyable.