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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: 2) by Username on Friday December 04 2015, @03:19AM
Nah, it’s more like me telling someone "you’re fucking useless," getting reported, and having the manager just tell me not to do it again.
There’s a whole group of us highly competitive assholes who get away with everything. We cut each other down and stab each other in the back. We also get all the important projects and work with each other all the time.
I honestly find it all enjoyable. It’s almost like the movie Tin Men, where you do the meanest shit to each other but somehow are friends and coolheaded in the end.