Work toxicity on the rise

buzz88 said:
Now you've done it. This is the kind of tribalism that begets toxicity. I am from the state of lions, lol, and I've shared my own experience of workplace toxicity above, and guess what, none my bosses were from my state.

Your comment reads eerily similar to those of white racists when they are going off on a rant about Indians, they think all Indians inherently share the same traits and are dirty, ill-mannered and uncivilized by nature, which we know isn't true. Generalizing a whole country or a whole state just because of one's own anecdotal experience of a bad bunch is quite foolish as well as churlish. We need to come out of this "othering" mentality. When you divide lines and put people into "others" category, i.e. Us vs Them, you are only feeding the issues you are complaining about. These biases often start small, an offhand comment or a sweeping stereotype, but can quickly grow into bigger issues that perpetuate tribalism and stop us from coming together. The irony is, while criticizing others for being tribal, we often don’t notice our own tribal thinking. When we catch ourselves making generalizations, it’s worth pausing to question if we’re being fair or just clinging to biases that make us feel comfortable.

Lastly, I really don't want this thread to go on a tangent and discuss how one state or another is bad, or one community or another is evil. Workplaces all over the world have a tendency to go toxic, it is not limited to certain countries, states or communities. The cause of it is not a great mystery. It is human nature, the coveting of power over others, that is the cause. I am sure this evident and obvious to most people here. What we should be discussing is our experiences in dealing with it and what we can learn from it.
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Sorry if you feel like that. But those are consensuses. People hardly see anyone from your state working like a normal middle class. Everyone seems to be running a business. Dislike against one's bosses shouldn't come under tribalism. You folks are truly hardworking, no denying, but WLB, weekends seem to be a foreign concept in general over there.

I never said these people are bad. No offense was meant. The working culture is different from that of the rest of India.
 
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Every management person highlights Indians need to work for more then 60hrs, They wrap their personal agenda under patriotism like most things these days, in the end the person who is sacrificing and working will not be getting much as a reward and only the shareholders pockets will be filling up. Senstive topic but if someone can come up with a model where working for 60-70hrs will increase indians per capita income not GDP most indians will be more then happy to comply.
 
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