However, the workplace feels too adverserial, with many of the senior people and managers seeming to exclude the newer employees. There are of course the formalities of lunches together, but if you are not savvy enough in navigating the field here, you'll be excluded from after hour get togethers. Some people in fact can be just plain rude, as when I had to get IT repair work done. Because as stated before with the senior people knowing management very well, if you are on the bad side of one employee, you'll be on the bad side of everyone. And it's very easy to get on the bad side of an employee as some feel that they can get away with bad behavior given that they can manipulate the story to their advantage to management. Attempts to bring concerns to management only result in scapegoating on your end.