I would NEVER hire a psycho because people like that cause endless drama and bullshit. Now I have to hear about it constantly and everyone is going to question my judgement (as well they should) if I were to hire an asshole like that. I've had a few people who would get a little hot under the collar at work. Nothing big, but they'd get pissy and irritated on meetings, pretty minor stuff. They ain't even curse or yell. I'd STILL have people up my ass about dude because he got a little shitty during a call. I could not imagine having a genuine whack job who fucks with people on my staff. So much time wasted on Mr. Grumpy-but-Harmless. Have Professor Cockstain on the team would be endless misery.

The asshole at work creates more work than they do. Anyone who hires one knows damn well what they've done and unless they have the balls to fire them, they're complicit in keeping them around.

Sane people don't hire assholes.

[–] Blackfeathr@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

The asshole at work creates more work than they do. Anyone who hires one knows damn well what they’ve done and unless they have the balls to fire them, they’re complicit in keeping them around.

Can confirm, dealing with that type of asshole at work. He wants to do as little work as possible and offloads his responsibilities on others, causing massive slowdowns and inconveniences his fellow coworkers who all hate him, but management loves him because he's a suck up and a snitch (read: often makes up stuff about people to get them fired). It's so infuriating that these people just skate on by.

[–] DandomRude@piefed.social 19 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, I agree, especially since selfishness, ruthlessness, and greed are traits that promise profits - and (short-term) profits are the only, or at least the primary, measure by which most managers’ performance is judged (Shareholder Value, Quarterly revenue figures, and such). It is therefore quite likely that current managers also exhibit these traits and thus fill positions with people who are similar to them. It appears to be a systemic vicious cycle that allows for hardly any exceptions.

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 4 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

And this is why we invented democracy.

[–] blargh513@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 hours ago

The workplace is a dictatorship that masquerades as a capitalistic democracy.

[–] DandomRude@piefed.social 7 points 21 hours ago

Yes, in principle, but unfortunately there are many politicians who do not act in the interests of the people. This is evident simply from the fact that the richest of the rich are getting richer and richer, even though this is by no means in the interests of a country’s citizens.

While there are neo-capitalist approaches such as "trickle-down economics" even after decades of pursuing them, what they postulate has never come to pass - instead, exactly what was to be expected has occurred: tax revenues are plummeting, resulting in a lack of funds for investments in socially vital sectors and infrastructure, and the standard of living for citizens is steadily declining.

The result is that a kind of new monarchy of billionaires has emerged, who use their enormous influence through corruption and lobbying so ruthlessly that today there is hardly a capitalist-democratic state left that still serves the interests of its citizens.