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Car Dealership Manager Backtracks And Says It's A Prank After Employee Quits In Response To Being Told He Was Fired For Refusing To Buy A Car From The Manager: 'i Already Had A Better Job That Was Able To Start Me Immediately'

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When his manager made him think that he was being fired for not purchasing a car at the dealership where he worked, this employee decided that he wasn't going to put up with that type of behavior and made a difficult but important decision. 

While it's great to have a strong rapport with your workers, there is a subtle but critical boundary that it is crucial not to cross. 

Many workplaces encourage a friendly, relaxed, positive culture where everyone can be themselves and build camaraderie that increases productivity and engagement, and encourages new ideas to help achieve the business's goals. It's only natural that you will develop personal relationships with the people that you're spending so much time with. 

Even if you try your best to sever your personal life from your professional life, avoiding sharing or exchanging any personal information or pleasantries with your coworkers, at some point, the sheer facts of proximity and time will cause a relationship of some sort to develop, even a strained one.

While this is important, there's an incredibly fine line there somewhere in the sand, and we need to know where being personable ends and where what is professionally appropriate begins.