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They bad-mouth you to work colleagues behind your back; they angrily demand the impossible from everyone but themselves; they make unwanted comments about your attire.
At some point in our careers, most of us have come across someone known as a "toxic worker," a colleague or boss whose abrasive style or devious actions can make the workday utterly miserable. Such people hurt morale, stoke conflict in the office, and harm a company's reputation.
But toxic workers aren't just annoying or unpleasant to be around; they cost firms significantly more money than most of them even realize. According to a new Harvard Business School (HBS) paper, toxic workers are so damaging to the bottom line that avoiding them or rooting them out delivers twice the value to a company that hiring a superstar performer does.
While a top 1 percent worker might return $5,303 in cost savings to a company through increased output, avoiding a toxic hire will net an estimated $12,489, the study said. That figure does not include savings from sidestepping litigation, regulatory penalties, or decreased productivity as a result of low morale.
On the other hand, toxic co-workers are useful as foils come bonus time: "Hey, at least I'm not as bad as that guy..."
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Tork on Thursday December 03 2015, @08:57PM
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(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Saturday December 05 2015, @04:07AM
Social Justice Warriors, deciding who counts based on progressive stack, Social Justice Warriors, if you don't think like us we are on the attack!
We are narcissists and Captain Planeteers, with our heads firmly up our rears, we think the world is black and white, and if you are trans or have a vag then you'e always right!
Sorry but if you don't believe in SJWs you might as well say you don't believe there are communists and fellow travelers, since the SJW movement is really just an offshoot of those two movements. If you would actually like to talk to them here ya go [youtube.com] simply go down to the comments on this video, its SJW heaven, complete with "citations" of tumblr blogs, calling everyone that doesn't slurp the koolaid an "ist", arguments that consist entirely of moving the goalpost, Ad Hominem, and tu quoque fallacies, calls to ban and censor those that do not agree with their positions, all classic SJW behavior.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Saturday December 05 2015, @07:02AM
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(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Saturday December 05 2015, @10:33AM
Well lets see, you invoked a strawman, used a tu quoque fallacy, and your only answer is to insult, not to debate...let me guess, millennial SJW? Or would you prefer racist?
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Saturday December 05 2015, @02:18PM
"SJWs are bad, your argument is bad, and I bet you're an SJW!!"
He swings.... and he misses!
Seriously, though, the whole "SJW" thing is so transparent that nobody takes it seriously. There's a group of people whose opinion differs from yours. There's nothing particularly wrong with their opinion, but in battling with them over it it has become clear that your goals aren't as noble as theirs. Since this isn't a defensible position the new tact is to put them into an ill-defined group and make up a bunch of stuff about how powerful they are and how insincere their motives are. Sorta like how during the 2012 election everybody on 'entitlement programs' was on drugs. Or how minimum wage workers are just teenagers that need to learn to get out there and make something of themselves. When you get enough people to agree with you, you can sit safely within that crowd and not feel like a monster.
So when you're heading into a situation you know you're on shaky ground with, you can just start pulling out the SJW label and throwing it around, like this: "let me guess, millennial SJW?" This leaves you free from having to worry about learning more about a topic at hand.
I'm starting to think the real definition of "SJW" is "group of people more knowledgeable about a topic than I am and I hate them."
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(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Saturday December 05 2015, @07:15PM
If a spade is a spade, do you expect us to call it a tomato because you do not personally like the word spade? And I hate to break the news to you but they call themselves that now as the comment section I linked to clearly shows. They consider it like blacks calling each other nigga, they are "taking back the term" and are quite proud of being every stereotype that the phrase implies and will thank you for calling them that, as they believe gender fascism and racism are things to be proud of.
So I'm sorry oh spoiled one, but you do not get to decide what words exist and what words do not but I tell ya what, would you like me to provide a "trigger warning" when somebody speaks it here?
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Sunday December 06 2015, @02:46AM
...as they believe gender fascism and racism are things to be proud of.
No. Honestly, you should know better. I know you were repeatedly educated on this topic in school. The worst part is you have absolutely no idea that you're part of the problem.
So I'm sorry oh spoiled one, but you do not get to decide what words exist and what words do not but I tell ya what, would you like me to provide a "trigger warning" when somebody speaks it here?
No, there isn't an endlessly growing list of words you cannot use. It's really only a matter of respect. Treat people with respect and you won't have to worry about what words you choose. Run around labeling people by a stereotype, don't act surprised that your own prejudices get aired out for all to see. This isn't the work of "SJWs" that are running around trying to make your life miserable, it's simply your own undoing. This is why nobody takes your posts seriously when you bring up "SJWs". There's no real content in those posts, just gripes about some fictional group that your recently humbled buddies raise a drink to.
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(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Sunday December 06 2015, @09:12PM
Not gonna call a spade a tomato because you don't like the word spade. For fucks say did you not even READ the original post? It was a fucking quote by George Carlin AGAINST all this political correct fucking newspeak and you expect me to support that shit? Get da fuck out of here with your politically correct (which just FYI is a word that was coined by Marxists in the USSR, so it really doesn't surprise me that SJ narcissist fellow travelers love it) bullshit and I will continue to point out when bullshit IS bullshit, I will NOT call it a field of daisies.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Sunday December 06 2015, @09:30PM
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(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Sunday December 06 2015, @10:49PM
Sorry but you don't get to redefine words, move the goalposts, or label any normal word in the english language as "dat be raciss!" because you don't like it, now kindly fuck off.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Monday December 07 2015, @01:26AM
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