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…if you can’t or won’t quit your job, do everything you can to limit your contact with the worst people.
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Warning: seeing coworkers as rivals and enemies is a dangerous game.
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Admitting you’re an asshole is the first step.
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Many people are stuck in vile workplaces for financial reasons – they have no escape route to another job, at least to one that pays as well.
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Learning when and how to simply not give a damn isn’t the kind of advice you hear in most business books, but it can help you make the best of a lousy situation.
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Unwavering hope that all those hard-core jerks are going to be transformed into nice people is a recipe for one reliable disappointment after another.
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…assholes are rarely nasty all the time; their followers are driven both by the ‘sticks’ of punishment and humiliation and the ‘carrots’ of hard-won warmth and recognition.
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Another justification for acting like an asshole is that if you want to be left alone… glaring, growling and other forms of grumpiness are splendid means for chasing unwanted intruders away.
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Although we often talk about this challenge in terms of specifics … the core problem is always about people.
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