What is the professional way to deal with colleagues?

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As a Supervisor its not a good idea to mingle with the staff as they will see this as invasion of privacy in the workplace. Perhaps they can’t be themselves with a Supervisor around. It is nice to chat briefly but other than that you will always be the outsider in there conversations. Seek other Supervisors or management to mingle with, or leave the area to socialize.

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