Employees in a hierarchy do not really object to incompetence: they merely gossip about incompetence to mask their envy of employees who have Pull.
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Research on employee theft shows that ridicule, ostracism, and nasty gossip by peers is 250 percent more effective for deterring stealing than forms of punishment by supervisors.
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Gossiping with the boss will absolutely come back to haunt you. Don’t do it. Ever.
