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The Vulture in the Cubicle: How Workplace Shaming Destroys Professional Ecosystems
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The Vulture in the Cubicle: How Workplace Shaming Destroys Professional Ecosystems

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The fluorescent lights hum overhead like electrical mosquitoes as you feel your colleague's breath practically on your neck. Your stomach twists into a knot as his voice rises, deliberately pitched to carry across the open office plan. "You still haven't updated the McKinsey spreadsheets? Jesus Christ, it's been three days. I guess I'll have to tell Diane you dropped the ball. Again."

โ€œhe picks apart virtually every PR I make in a way that it just downright insensitive, likely on purpose, but I cant validly claim that as toxic , so I have to do something else to deal with itโ€

Your cheeks burn hot enough to melt steel as twenty pairs of eyes flicker toward you then quickly away, the collective embarrassment hanging in the air like toxic gas. The spreadsheets are actually due tomorrow, but facts don't matter in this ritual sacrifice. What matters is that Mark has, once again, painted a target on your back while positioning himself as the vigilant guardian of workplace standards.

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