How to survive a toxic workplace and how to avoid creating one

Re:How to survive a toxic workplace and how to avoid creatin... by Cracklord on Friday May 07, 2021 @04:50PM (#27080724)

Oh man. God forbid you talk about Jeff Bezos in our company chat in a positive light. Good way to get into big trouble. It’s assumed we all know he’s a demon who destroyed countless lives with his low wages and slave labor. We all hate him. If you don’t show you hate him too, you’ll get in big trouble. Reports will be filed. People will be offended.

Don’t dare say anything good about capitalism either, that’s a good way to trigger everyone and get isolated as an insane person.

I believe we’ve gotten to this point simply because of people like you describe essentially winning the war and having control over the company culture. They are a minority but they are very loud and hyper aggressive and controlling of everyone’s behavior. The worst part is, they claim that they’re oppressed, as they control the entire company’s thoughts and speech.

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Re:How to survive a toxic workplace and how to avoid creatin... by rasputnik6502 on Friday May 07, 2021 @06:15PM (#27081455)

Yep I think it's about control. Punching everyone around while playing a helpless victim. You read someone accusing coworkers of racism and sexism, whole company of being evil and pathological and you see the 'victim' causing all the trouble themselves by behaving in arrogant, entitled and manipulate way. We had some examples from Google and other big companies, and very often it's a person with an unappreciated primadonna syndrome.

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