Unfortunately, no surprises here. I work with a toxic employee who is not my boss, fortunately. It's a situation where said employee is quite good at their job and gets quite a lot of work done....
Unfortunately, no surprises here.
toxic bosses were not likely to change their ways, mainly because their focus was on covering up their bad behavior through manipulative ingratiation and self-promotion behaviors, not on actually changing their toxic behaviors.
I work with a toxic employee who is not my boss, fortunately. It's a situation where said employee is quite good at their job and gets quite a lot of work done. To the point that if they ever left, we'd be screwed and would probably have to hire 2 people to replace them. Unfortunately, they are also unbearable to deal with outside of smalltalk. And naturally, they also have an inordinate amount of pull with management, so pleas with management to have a talk with them about their behavior are usually ignored. In this case, our bosses make excuses for a toxic employee's behavior because they like the employee's output. But a lot of what they learned in this study reminded me of that situation.
Unfortunately, that's just how some people are, and a good manager will insulate everyone else from said person and just let them work solo without bothering others. Speaking as someone who is...
Unfortunately, they are also unbearable to deal with outside of smalltalk.
Unfortunately, that's just how some people are, and a good manager will insulate everyone else from said person and just let them work solo without bothering others.
Speaking as someone who is like that sometimes, and would be much happier if my useless boss was remotely competent and I (and rest of my team) wasn't forced into meetings with VPs and CIO because even they recognize that too much stuff is not filtering coherently up or down the chain.
I used to have a boss that did this. He asked me for input on decisions that needed made, gave me a list of things to for the week, and would repeat this process continually. Best work environment I ever had. Sadly it paid very little and I was playing the "which bill do I pay late this month" game.
Unfortunately, no surprises here.
I work with a toxic employee who is not my boss, fortunately. It's a situation where said employee is quite good at their job and gets quite a lot of work done. To the point that if they ever left, we'd be screwed and would probably have to hire 2 people to replace them. Unfortunately, they are also unbearable to deal with outside of smalltalk. And naturally, they also have an inordinate amount of pull with management, so pleas with management to have a talk with them about their behavior are usually ignored. In this case, our bosses make excuses for a toxic employee's behavior because they like the employee's output. But a lot of what they learned in this study reminded me of that situation.
Unfortunately, that's just how some people are, and a good manager will insulate everyone else from said person and just let them work solo without bothering others.
Speaking as someone who is like that sometimes, and would be much happier if my useless boss was remotely competent and I (and rest of my team) wasn't forced into meetings with VPs and CIO because even they recognize that too much stuff is not filtering coherently up or down the chain.
I used to have a boss that did this. He asked me for input on decisions that needed made, gave me a list of things to for the week, and would repeat this process continually. Best work environment I ever had. Sadly it paid very little and I was playing the "which bill do I pay late this month" game.