Gas Lighters at Work

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Most gaslighters at work don't have a big community of people they're lying to. So they like building this this absolutely fake world that they can be successful within and think highly of themselves within. And so they're able to kind o cycle through lots of victims without ever being caught, because the victims rarely report them. They're terrified too. Often there's a narrative of, if you tell on me, it's going to ruin your reputation here. I'm the only one that likes you here. Say a bad thing, and you're going to be gone.

In this live taping of the podcast at Caveat in NYC, Dr. Tessa West, the author of Jerks at Work, conducts quizzes to see what kind of jerk you are and what kind of jerk most-easily persuades you in the workplace. You will also learn how to counteract the behaviors of people who make work suck more than it should.

West is a leading expert on interpersonal interaction and communication and will explain how to make work suck less as we return to our offices and figure out how to balance working remotely with working in-person after a year of re-imagining what work even means. West’s new book is an exploration of all the psychological research into how and why gaslighters, bulldozers, neglectors, micromanagers and more do their thing in our workplaces and how to use what we know from decades of psychological research to counteract their Machiavellian machinations.

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