alt Hacker NewsRight way of resisting is not to quit your job, but to observe, be friendly, and gradually push away toxic people.
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pkaeding • today at 5:34 PM
Or Simple Sabotage[1]?
salawat • today at 6:58 PM
Doesn't work when the boss is one of the toxic ones. Hierarchies preserve power top down.
An issue with this approach is that engaging in this way can start to reset your standards for "toxic people", and not in the cheerful "I'd like to buy the world a coke" manner.
One other issue I've had when I have tried to do this is that largely the "big" horrible issues with things are systematic rather than interpersonal- it doesn't matter who is operating the "baby seal blender", its operation is both the harm being done and the reason why "baby-seal-smoothies-r-us" operates so unless you cease the very profitable baby-seal-smoothy business the harm isn't going to stop.
Not to say that those issues are universally applicable, but rather to note that when you dance with the devil you need to observe how the devil is dancing with you; if you're going to go that way you need to be really careful in ways you don't need to be careful if you, say, just go work in a situation where the harm you create is less obvious and immediate.