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[NYT] Help, I'm Surrounded by Jerks

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  • 1) There's a wide spectrum of people being included there, without much distinction between "wet blankets" and people who are genuinely vicious.

    2) Scott Adams notes in The Dilbert Principle (and it's striking that the consultants here focus on "creating unhappy customers and vendors" instead) that however productive nasty people are (which usually isn't nearly as much as they imagine), the amount of productivity they suck from others always exceeds it.

    3) Having dealt with a bona-fide sociopath about a deca

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