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Tuesday 26 February 2019

The joy of pettiness: why everyone needs an office nemesis

Most people in a survey say they have a workplace enemy. Maybe we all need somebody who can be a cheerily oblivious outlet for our antagonism

Six in 10 people say they have an archenemy at work, a survey of 7,000 workers has found. The remaining four, I can only assume, must be lying, lacking rich internal lives or between archenemies.

Martin Talbot, of the recruitment firm Totaljobs, which carried out the survey, said the findings – that 20% of people called in sick because they could not face seeing their nemeses, and that nearly a quarter were driven to alcohol or cigarettes – were proof that “we should take the concept of work enemies seriously”.

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from The Guardian https://ift.tt/2XpVf5B

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