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“Most of us have worked with someone who had an outsized effect on our emotional well-being,” writes NYU psychology professor Tessa West in her book Jerks at Work: Toxic Coworkers and What to Do About Them, an office “playbook” that draws from decades of research to outline how to make us less “beholden to soul-sucking jerks at work and the chaos they inflict on your life.” How many of the seven types she describes do you recognize? Do you you see yourself in any of them?
“Most of us have worked with someone who had an outsized effect on our emotional well-being,” writes NYU psychology professor Tessa West in her book Jerks at Work: Toxic Coworkers and What to Do About Them, an office “playbook” that draws from decades of research to outline how to make us less “beholden to soul-sucking jerks at work and the chaos they inflict on your life.” How many of the seven types she describes do you recognize? Do you you see yourself in any of them?
