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Where I work, it seems frequent for people internally to berate each other, make other coworkers feel stupid, making everything "urgent," and making an internal employee liable in front of a customer if something goes wrong. If something goes wrong, it's not seen as an organizational problem, but rather "John Smith's" offense. It's completely toxic.
Do you work where employees are constantly chewing each other out and assigning liability?
Where I work, it seems frequent for people internally to berate each other, make other coworkers feel stupid, making everything "urgent," and making an internal employee liable in front of a customer if something goes wrong. If something goes wrong, it's not seen as an organizational problem, but rather "John Smith's" offense. It's completely toxic.
Do you work where employees are constantly chewing each other out and assigning liability?
I taught for 32 years so yes, for much of that time. It depended on the competence of the administration and the management style they used. Most wanted the teachers at each others throats and complaining about other staff.
I'm at a customer site for a very large company and managers frequently berate each other because they're all have immunity. Nobody can fire each other so they can only sound off about the incompetance of different groups or workers especially when the places are made of 70% contractors. It's like a game show, one day the groups berate another group's contractors the next day those contractors are fired and new ones show up and they gotta be like tour guides and show the new contractors how to do their jobs and the cycle repeats itself weekly.
Nothing gets done so the employees facilitates a dysfunctional process over and over because corporate America loves killing jobs and replacing them with temp workers.
I worked at a job like that. The best thing to do is to find another job if you don't have the opportunity to exclude yourself from the toxic environment.
In a large organization, every employee seems to have a particular game that they like to play, some dirty stunt that they pull on their coworkers, repeatedly. It could be a gift for shifting their workload off onto someone else, maybe they avoid accountability somehow, maybe they like to steal credit for other colleagues' work, etc.
But when one particular "game" becomes entrenched in a workplace, like this blame-game that you see happening, that tells me that there's a deeply rooted problem here, that's at the organizational level. The management needs to recognize this and step up and do something about it. Mind you, I also bet that management is part of the problem and "sets the tone" by accepting the behaviour. Or even participating. Sad but it's a higher-level issue.
In a large organization, every employee seems to have a particular game that they like to play, some dirty stunt that they pull on their coworkers, repeatedly. It could be a gift for shifting their workload off onto someone else, maybe they avoid accountability somehow, maybe they like to steal credit for other colleagues' work, etc.
But when one particular "game" becomes entrenched in a workplace, like this blame-game that you see happening, that tells me that there's a deeply rooted problem here, that's at the organizational level. The management needs to recognize this and step up and do something about it. Mind you, I also bet that management is part of the problem and "sets the tone" by accepting the behaviour. Or even participating. Sad but it's a higher-level issue.
At my place, we had a co-worker who was lazy, frequently gets injured at work, always berating and yelling at me and several others for no real good reason. There were several complaints about him. When he got in a fight with someone, I have heard he got fired and he was gone. Thank God he's gone. Now I am having to deal with someone who thinks he's the boss when he's not, and I recently told him to shut up. He said, "Don't tell me to shut up, I know I am right."
In a large organization, every employee seems to have a particular game that they like to play, some dirty stunt that they pull on their coworkers, repeatedly. It could be a gift for shifting their workload off onto someone else, maybe they avoid accountability somehow, maybe they like to steal credit for other colleagues' work, etc.
But when one particular "game" becomes entrenched in a workplace, like this blame-game that you see happening, that tells me that there's a deeply rooted problem here, that's at the organizational level. The management needs to recognize this and step up and do something about it. Mind you, I also bet that management is part of the problem and "sets the tone" by accepting the behaviour. Or even participating. Sad but it's a higher-level issue.
These problems definitely go up to a higher level of management who has not made clear the constant blame game is unacceptable. We fight with each other far, far more than with customers.
Where I work, it seems frequent for people internally to berate each other, make other coworkers feel stupid, making everything "urgent," and making an internal employee liable in front of a customer if something goes wrong. If something goes wrong, it's not seen as an organizational problem, but rather "John Smith's" offense. It's completely toxic.
Do you work where employees are constantly chewing each other out and assigning liability?
Yup. It's exhausting sometimes to constantly have to cover my ass and check my back for stab marks.
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