You'll be put in a box with the rest of the worker bees, useful for the time being, but not sophisticated enough and able of displaying higher behaviours and definitely not worthy elevating into the inner circle.
Social standing in other workers' eyes? I can get that by knowing what I'm doing and telling the truth, even if it's not the management line. (I mean, that doesn't mean that I badmouth management all the time. That's just a whiner, and nobody but other whiners likes to be around that. But when someone needs to tell management the truth, I don't have much of a problem with being the guy who does. I'll speak for the room if they need me to.)
I mean, all that's really easy for me to say, because I'm retired now. But when I was working, I think I lived it out...