Do older people, outside of high school have cliques?

Answer 1

Well i have been to a local senior for about 2 months now. Its sorta like a high school lunch room. the same people sit at the same table with the same people everyday. when walking around you can hear them complain about the people that sit at other tables. So i would have to say yes there are still cligues outside of high school. i actually think the way the parent act toward certain type of people influnces there kids so the cligues continue with each generation.

Answer 2

Oh YES! It's so funny because I used to be so eager to get out of school because I thought "being an adult" would eliminate this issue. It is SO wierd how I am 26 now and I still feel like I am a "kid"...... I am getting married this May and we are going to plan a family and for some reason, I keep thinking to myself (How can we have kids and raise them? I am just a kid...)

Don't get me wrong, I am a responsible adult, but for YEARS I kept waiting for that "Adult" feeling to take over and it doesn't. You live, ya learn - ya get older - but you never realize that you are an "Adult" until you get pulled over by a cop and you can't (cutzy talk) your way out of a ticket - OR - you go to the grocery store to buy food and the checker calls you "Mam..."

I GARANTEE one day - you will be called "Mam" and you will think of this answer I posted and be like "Sh*t! That chick was RIGHT!"

Anyway, I'd love to say that the Cliques' aren't as "cruel" after high school - but they can be and sometimes they are............. It's just a more "adult" version...... Instead of the "girls" not inviting you over for a "Party" it may be the "Girls from the office" NOT inviting ya out to "Happy Hour" after work on Thursday...

THEN AGAIN, once you are out of HS, you probably won't give much of a "sh*t" because you will see (over the years) that all of those "cliqu-ee" types never seem to make "progress" in life. A few years after being jealous of the "head of the "clique" from MY old HS, I bumped into her on the way to my excellent paying job...

She was single, knocked up, and BEHIND the CASH register taking MY COFFEE ORDER!
LOL - ha ha ha ha ha

Hope my long winded answer helped.

Ciao'

Meg -

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Answer 3

Yes, it can be quite common in workplaces, particularly if you work among a group of women, such as in a female dominated field-like social work, nursing, teaching,. etc. I can only speak on behalf of women. I clearly see it as a female thing, even when I was in highschool.

In nearly every workplace I've been in since I left highschool I was aware of cliques. All it takes are common interests, common circumstances (age range, marital status, kids etc), and common attitudes and these people will stick together sometimes to the detriment of the company, and sometimes for the betterment of it.

In my own experience I found cliques to be destructive in the workplace. Co-workers who were part of the clique looking out for each other's own interests. It's very harmful to the moral of the entire team. I've even seen one clique being pitted against another clique. I think it's very closed minded and childish.

Answer 4

Cliques Older people I belive are not so much in the click I think they grow out of it and some relize what they have done
Why must people feel they have to categorise themselves into groups in order to belong? I was always under the belief that the Net made you who you wanted to be . . . where you aren’t judged by the people you hang with, or your weight, or your skin colour or whatever. But lately, while I’ve been doing the rounds of people’s homepages, especially teenage girls, I’ve noticed more and more “Look! I’m in all these cliques!!” A clique is described as a group which is snobbily exclusive. And if there's one thing I can’t stand, it’s a snob. Actually, I'm not fond of (make up) but that derives from the point.

Bullys and snobs irritate me because their main pleasure in life seems to be derived from their sole belief that they are better than everyone else. They amuse me because of the lengths they go to in order to keep up appearances. They anger me because I was one who never was liked very well I was teased i was bullied cause i had a weight problem, I was dumb cause i had learning disabilties, i was different cause i liked music they did not like like country music, and classic rock, oldies music ect. They did not like different so they shove you aside like garbage though, i was very friendly never caused any trouble, i let people walk over me one to many times, but Ii had god on my mind alot thinking hel'l get me through this, and here i am maybe a better person then i was then i have two kids, i tell them how it was when i was in school and how id like them to be, I don't want them to be walked on like i was but, i don't want them to ever pick on some one whos different either i want them to be that persons friend cause there gona need friends more then the ones who tease. I teach them right from wrong at least i try.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not bagging other people’s preference for focaccias and lattes. What I am bagging them for is their belief that everyone else should be eating foccacias and drinking lattes. Or BE SEEN eating foccacias and drinking lattes.
Nobody is better than anyone else, no matter who their friends are, what brand names they choose to wear and what they choose to eat. Remember this. It may be useful to you.

Answer 5

Yes, wherever people are gathered for a period of time every day, such as in an office environment, there will be cliques. Although it's not as annoying as it was in high school, it's the same kind of stuff.

Answer 6

I believe some adults may be in cliques but I do not believe it is as prevalent as it is at the high school level. I think it is a need to be accepted mentality, that mature people evolve beyond or are forced to.

Answer 7

of course, their the same ones that had cliques in high school. they want to be popular outside of school too. it is something they will grow out of when they are older. then they look back and wonder why they didn't get it earlier. i choose friends because of their heart, not for what they can do for me. it is too bad.

Answer 8

Cliques exist in every level of life.

Answer 9

I'm not sure clique is the right word, but I guess sort of, yeah. We grown people like to call them "our group of friends."

Answer 10

It all depends on your deffinition of a clique. If you mean people that hang together and not with other people then yes. I doubt you will see many goth and emo 35 year olds though.