That's all fine and dandy for some people yes, but even the healthiest organization will leave me drained because interacting with people is draining. It doesn't matter if I'm having fun or if I'm miserable, I will be drained.

I see people doing one and two rather frequently, it seems to be number 3 they have a big problem with.

Oh this one is a gem!

Fox news calls this a blasphemy!

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What people, and bosses (much much different animal), don’t understand is that the center of someone’s universe can accommodate more than one thing. Their home and family, their health, their leisure time can all occupy the center, but will all be given their fair share of time. When at work, that’s the priority. When at home, that’s the priority. Work gets its fair share of attention, so should never think it has the right to demand more and take away from the others.

Makes me think of those comics where leader A is sitting on a load being pulled and leader B is at the front helping pull the load.

Peoples guilt of leaving a toxic workplace is often the guilt of coworker friends that they left behind. Just because you are in a position to leave doesn't mean that they are, and you know they'll be picking up anything you've left behind

I feel that you don't have to do this in the heat of a debate. There have been many times realization of a person's accuracy has dawned on me much after the conversation has ended. I always go back later and admit they were right - I also thank them.

I really really like this one. Saving.

My status symbol as a parent is that my child is happy.

Love how he uses "weak" language in the last alinea :)

You also can't force your kids to love reading. Some people just don't like it and that's okay.

Agreed but extremes in either direction are unhealthy. A lack of action is just as foolish. The wisdom is in knowing what needs immediate answers often moving quickly is better. Or if patience and reflection are the right action for a particular situation. But we all too often hold up the quick as best when it may not be true. Balance and applying the correct principle at the right time is what is important.

This!! 🙏

This works well for healthy people, not so much for those of us with chronic illness or chronic pain. For a lot of us it is forever - we just have moments where we hide it better than other times. That being said, just lending us an ear and not invalidating our challenges goes a very, very long way. The friends and people that do this for us are invaluable.

I’m always either of those and it’s really my take a toll on me

Also setting arbitrary deadlines and then refusing to move them when it becomes clear they are not realistic. An extra two weeks might make the difference between done and done well.

Most companies would lay you off in a heartbeat if they thought ot would boost profits. Don't give them more loyalty than they'd give you.

Finally someone who doesn't get empathy and compassion mixed up. For example, manipulative, psychopathic people have a lot of empathy, they understand very well how other people tick, but don't care (much) about the well-being of others. People on the autism spectrum have a hard time understanding how other people tick, but they can be very compassionate and supportive once they realize that other people are having a hard time.

A tip for all online gamers: if a game forces you to skip sleep or community hates those who rather focus on health then leave that community/game.

Or sometimes it's just a fun question to ask a kid to see what they are interested in. Not everything has a deeper meaning. Not everything is perpetuating some unhealthy method of thinking.

Call out poor leadership and be an example that people naturally follow. Change occurs from within.

PLEASE. This needs to be normalized. I probably lose 5-6 hours a week to meetings that I really don’t need to be a part of/go on longer than planned because some employee starts going off about things they should really meet with the boss one-on-one about. Then it becomes an audience of 20 listening to 2 people talk about a minor department-specific issue that we can’t contribute to for 15 minutes. Optimize, people!

And sometimes, it's just laziness. If I don't rake the lawn today, maybe I'll forget about it tomorrow.

There are some "parents" that absolutely do that though.

I again reiterate that this is not a solution to those of us whose job cannot be done from home. Where is our solution, especially as it seems those who do work from home still expect us to be in our workplaces full time!

In a healthy culture, management fires poor performers who lied to get into the job or where there is no hope of them performing adequately. Having to work around such people also results in a toxic environment.

This is why I get impatient with "where do you expect to be in 5 years?"