How to Deal With Jers at Work

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i think im we wish we could just, sometimes, metaphorically, push them down the stairs so we don't have to deal with them any more. I wel suppose gos was thes advised number six, pushing them down thijst in lieu of that buff i think there's little things you can do that we often don't think about. You can do small things like switch offices, switch bathrooms. Am if you have to have them in a meeting, sit on the same side. Is them on the opposite side, but like one or two people away. That way oudon’t have to make eye contact with them. So they might be physically closer, but

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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