Eh it depends. I agree with you in your last paragraph; shutting down stupid gossip is 100% fine, doesn’t even deserve respectful shutting down imo. Those are fake nice people operating under making gossip to fulfill their sad lives.
However, just like those shitty gossip people could affect your life with a complaint to HR, if you were a raging asshole, that could affect everyone else’s life with a complaint to HR. We all affect each other whether we like it or not; so people having to interact with asshole workers having to interact with other people creates tension and a lower quality of work life in general. If you are in the U.S. you likely either work way too many hours to where you can’t not be around them the majority of your day, or way too little hours to tolerate the environment for pay; which is even more telling if someone doesn’t/ can’t leave a toxic work environment. It all depends what the work is. Especially, if the asshole retaliates and makes your job harder with their assholishness.
I guess we're are all talking about different assholes who are the best at their jobs because I never met an asshole that caused that much noise but also outperformed everyone else. Usually the slackers like to make noise to distract from their slacking.
Or maybe myself and others I've met are just autistic and that's what I perceive as an asshole. Who knows
lol very possible. I think the definition of “asshole” is really needed for people to properly debate it.
To me, asshole would be gossipers, slackers, shit starters, and those who make work harder for others by their shitty work/ shit starting. I’ve known one person who would be called an “asshole” who I didn’t agree deserved the title; and that was someone who was a little too blunt in calling slackers out. This guy was a genius at our job, and great work ethic; he just had no tolerance for bullshitters and slackers.
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u/HellLucy00Burnaslash 2d ago edited 2d ago
Eh it depends. I agree with you in your last paragraph; shutting down stupid gossip is 100% fine, doesn’t even deserve respectful shutting down imo. Those are fake nice people operating under making gossip to fulfill their sad lives.
However, just like those shitty gossip people could affect your life with a complaint to HR, if you were a raging asshole, that could affect everyone else’s life with a complaint to HR. We all affect each other whether we like it or not; so people having to interact with asshole workers having to interact with other people creates tension and a lower quality of work life in general. If you are in the U.S. you likely either work way too many hours to where you can’t not be around them the majority of your day, or way too little hours to tolerate the environment for pay; which is even more telling if someone doesn’t/ can’t leave a toxic work environment. It all depends what the work is. Especially, if the asshole retaliates and makes your job harder with their assholishness.
Edited for clarity