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> "Cultural Fit" is always toxic You clearly never had to put up with The Angry Guy. Cultural fit, I agree, it's a catchall term that covers everything from b
by southpawgirl 13y ago
> "Cultural Fit" is always toxic
You clearly never had to put up with The Angry Guy.
Cultural fit, I agree, it's a catchall term that covers everything from blatant aesthetic discrimination to merciful removal of toxic characters.
- Iftheshoefits 13y agoIn my experience, with rare exceptions, "toxic characters" is a kind of dogwhistle for "that guy is not in our clique." It's born of the kind of immaturity and never-left-high-school mentality I've come to associate with lingerers especially at large organizations. "The Angry Guy" in these cases is often "angry" only by projection, or frankly with cause.
- Torgo 13y agoI have been the "toxic character." In my experience the term means "allergic to bullshit."
- southpawgirl 13y agoI've been Angry Gal too, but only for about two weeks - then I recognised the poor 'cultural fit' that I was being (my bad, I should have never taken the job in the first place) and I left for greener and more congenial pastures. The conditions of the market may not allow such radical choices in every single case; but I don't have a problem with acknowledging that despite being right in my anger towards the bullshit I was seeing, I was actually being disruptive and damaging to that particular (horrid) environment. Not everyone is suited to every company - it seems a very basic truth to me.
- Iftheshoefits 13y agoI think we're in agreement mainly, but I wouldn't self-describe as being "disruptive and damaging" were I you. Perhaps just "disruptive," but such an environment can't be "damaged" any more than it already is, in my opinion.
- entendre 13y agoI know Angry guy! He sits next to Chatty Kathy! No one likes a Chatty Kathy.