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Hidden Workplace Reality
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11 May

Hidden Workplace Reality

The toxic coworker undermining you isn’t the real problem. The real problem is… they don’t even have to hide it. They can throw subtle disrespect. Undermine your work. Shift blame. Run slick comments under their breath. Create tension in the open. And still walk around like nothing happened. Why? Because the people with the authority to shut it down… are watching it happen and doing NOTHING. And that silence is louder than the behaviour itself. Let’s be brutally honest:
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