SHOW NOTES:

• Suddenly we have “toxic workplaces” (and need “psychological safety” and have “unhoused” people and “food insecure people).

• We try to wallpaper over real problems with euphemisms and ideologically-biased language.

• Can you have a “toxic workplace” without toxic employees? Chicken and egg?

• On social media we see complete nonsense such as “52% of all workplaces are toxic,” which is preposterous and without any valid study.

• Can we have so many successful businesses with such malicious management?

• I’ve witnessed the opposite: Leadership doing its best to deal with underperforming and entitled employees.

• The story of Burlington Industries and Bill Klopman.

• If people want to do the job but don’t know how, they need skills training.

• If people don’t want to do the job even if they do know how, they need coaching (attitude adjustment). If they still refuse to do it, they need firing.

• It’s an entitled age, and people demand certain treatments and conditions that please them, but may not please others, and don’t help the business or its customers.

• My work at the post office.

• “Toxic” often means “I’m asked to do too much, to meet deadlines, to fulfill commitments.”

• There are, of course, bad bosses, and hungry people and homeless people. Let’s not conflate the truly bad with those who are merely discontents.

• I have to conclude here, I feel “food insecure” so I’m going out for lunch, which would make me, for the moment, “unhoused.”