> If you’re experiencing toxicity from “brilliant jerks” consider escalating to HR. How do you do that when the brilliant jerk is the person who owns and runs

> If you’re experiencing toxicity from “brilliant jerks” consider escalating to HR. How do you do that when the brilliant jerk is the person who owns and runs the company, or is otherwise widely considered critical to the organization's success? "Yeah, Barry can come off as a jerk but don't misread it. He's eccentric and between you and me, I think he's on the spectrum, but he's harmless. The investors love him and the launch of Magic X last year was a game changer for the company. At this rate we'll be going public in 2 years and it's all going to pay off. You can retire in Fiji." > I don’t condone Steve Jobs’ style in the 2020s moving forward. This is a different sentiment than "Why do I care?" I wasn't even speaking specifically about Steve Jobs. The behavior we're talking about didn't just become unethical recently. Just because people have a somewhat better ability to call it out and not be buried these days doesn't mean it wasn't as despicable and unethical then as it is now, and that it wasn't known to be such a decade or three ago.