Read an interesting article in Forbes today about toxic friends on the job.
You can pick your friends, you can pick your job. But you
can’t pick your colleagues any more than you can the next assignment to come
down from upper management. It’s no surprise, then, that not every colleague is
a good one.
A recent study cosponsored by TODAY.com and SELF.com
revealed that 84% of women have a friend who is “toxic” in their lives—and
many of them are found on the job. And when workplace friendships go sour, job
performance can suffer. One in four people in the survey said that ending a
workplace friendship at work left them in a strained “working” relationship as
well.
“There’s a difference between working with friends and
making friends with the people you work with,” says TODAY’s senior editor Julia
Sommerfeld on workplace friendships. “Most people don’t get the choice, so you
just have to make the best of it.”
The best way to avoid a toxic workplace friendship that
could potentially derail your career?
Learn to identify the tell-tale signs of
the NINE most poisonous personality types—and be sure to keep your (at least
emotional) distance.
1. The Big Mouth-
Twenty-seven percent of us have had a friend who blabbed our
secrets....
Do you have any toxic friends?
I'm Just Sayin!
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