I believe it depends on your relationship to the department. I have seen departments with more of a taskmaster to forced labor relationship too, sadly, with the obvious unhappiness that comes with that.
I think any department with some measure of self-determination has the concept of "inside" and "outside". Whether you want to call some part of the outside customers or colleagues depends on whether they justify your salary.
Examples from a couple of products I work on.
One product we mostly use internally. So other departments are customers since they justify the budget for work on that product. They ask for features and contact us for support.
However on another product, it is mostly external companies that use it (although we do use it internally as well). So I would consider most everyone else colleagues in that context. Some co-workers who use it internally put on the customer "hat" from time to time. But for the most part employee interaction with the product is in support of external clients.
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I believe it depends on your relationship to the department. I have seen departments with more of a taskmaster to forced labor relationship too, sadly, with the obvious unhappiness that comes with that.
I think any department with some measure of self-determination has the concept of "inside" and "outside". Whether you want to call some part of the outside customers or colleagues depends on whether they justify your salary.
Examples from a couple of products I work on.
One product we mostly use internally. So other departments are customers since they justify the budget for work on that product. They ask for features and contact us for support.
However on another product, it is mostly external companies that use it (although we do use it internally as well). So I would consider most everyone else colleagues in that context. Some co-workers who use it internally put on the customer "hat" from time to time. But for the most part employee interaction with the product is in support of external clients.