Job Survival Skills: How to Survive a Toxic Workplace
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Summary
Unproductive meetings, failed projects, hidden power dynamics, and unsolved workplace conflicts are just a few of the headaches workers have to deal with on a regular basis in the modern workplace.
Here are 10 workplace-related skills and concepts, combined with their associated lexical set, to assist you survive a day in a toxic workplace.
Recognize a Kafkaesque Office: If you’re unfamiliar with Kafka, do some research! His tragic comic stories serve as a sort of methodology for the modern industrial age.
Beware of Bikeshedding: The Law of Triviality, aka bikeshedding, claims that meetings are largely useless because most time is wasted on trivial matters.
Guard Against the Dark Triad: The Dark Triady is a fateful set of personality traits with malevolent features, including narcissism, psychopathy, and machiavellianism.
Use the C.R.A.P. Framework: The C.R.A.P. Framework is a scientific approach to dealing with workplace bullshit.
Apply Peter’s Principles: The Peter Principle is a satirical explanation for incompetence in the workplace.