Then we're talking past each other because our experiences are at odds.
I have never met, what I imagine is, a gratuitous asshole in the workplace.
I've met people who were just all-around cantankerous assholes outside of work, but I quickly distance myself from them.
Maybe it's because I've never worked in a corporate environment -- but only small, close-knit teams where that shit isn't tolerated. Or maybe I've just been lucky, I don't know.
Those behaviors manifest when you work in high performance environments.
Yeah, if you're on the sidelines in an over-funded environment with little connection to the performance of the business, then you can play tea-party and be nice, and inclusive, and oh so delightful.
But when you've got a critical deadline you need to meet, and some fuckhead decided he was going to slack and cause the rest of us to have to pick up his end of things due to shear caprice, there's going to be strong language thrown around about the situation -- where all patience has already been exhausted weeks ago.
Same shit happens in the Boy Scouts, same shit happens in the military, same shit happens in boardrooms, same shit happens everywhere people go to get stuff done.
I have never met, what I imagine is, a gratuitous asshole in the workplace.
I've met people who were just all-around cantankerous assholes outside of work, but I quickly distance myself from them.
Maybe it's because I've never worked in a corporate environment -- but only small, close-knit teams where that shit isn't tolerated. Or maybe I've just been lucky, I don't know.