... also, with the qualifier that both extremes seem to be minorities "on the team" however defined (Gauss comes to mind here).
But I as well as family and friends have also encountered the other variations, and more often than rarely. Incidentially a close relative has just had this experience in a public sector job (Health Care, Europe):
Person in question is
- competent and nice (as regards to her field of work and work ethic)
Person got hired to a small unit in which everybody else seemed to be:
- INcompetent and NOT nice
... except for the manager who was one of the types discussed here:
- INcompetent and nice
The work environment was fully toxic and not long after enrolling my competent and nice relative was on sick leave as a nervous wreck, and being laid off by the nice manager, because, as he said:
- "I'll have to fire either You or the full rest of the team, but as I need hands I have only one option."
(I have seen flavours of this happening in big private enterprises too, so it's not reserved for public/govt. jobs IMHO)
So far in this thread I've only seen mention of:
... also, with the qualifier that both extremes seem to be minorities "on the team" however defined (Gauss comes to mind here).But I as well as family and friends have also encountered the other variations, and more often than rarely. Incidentially a close relative has just had this experience in a public sector job (Health Care, Europe):
Person in question is
Person got hired to a small unit in which everybody else seemed to be: ... except for the manager who was one of the types discussed here: The work environment was fully toxic and not long after enrolling my competent and nice relative was on sick leave as a nervous wreck, and being laid off by the nice manager, because, as he said:- "I'll have to fire either You or the full rest of the team, but as I need hands I have only one option."
(I have seen flavours of this happening in big private enterprises too, so it's not reserved for public/govt. jobs IMHO)