Does the same apply if I call a female coworker a name that signifies contempt without being so inflammatory? More to the point: what is wrong with me expressing my contempt for a coworker that should deserve termination, regardless of gender? Or am I expected to be a robot that exudes nothing but faux kindness? If so, save the cult for those with more tolerance for that sort of corporate nonsense.
Why did your emotions evolve all the way through from annoyance, to frustration, to contempt, with nothing being said, to the point where you are cussing someone out?
I'm genuinely curious if anybody that reads this thinks it's acceptable or normal behavior to levy a genuine swear-insult at a coworker. That sounds like a fucking awful work environment. Actually contempt for each other? What kind of awful office culture is that?
I've had co-workers piss me off, I'm not pretending to be a saint, but there is always at a bare minimum mutual respect, or even below that an understanding that we have to share the same office at the end of the day, so insulting each other is pissing in the well.
The issue is that you’re letting your issues turn in to personal attacks instead of taking your legitimate complaints to a manager. A workplace where workers take their problems out on each other sounds toxic and unprofessional to me.
> The meritocracy you describe is rare to find. Politics is everywhere
"Taking complaints to your manager instead of verbally attacking them" has nothing to do with a meritocracy, it's a political action for a political environment. It just happens to be one that will accomplish what you're trying to do much more successfully.
