5 of the pettiest passive-aggressive things people say at work

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Janie

Take Back Your Life

Picture this: You’re living and working in a bustling, mid-sized city when you’re hired by a company headquartered in San Francisco. You happily go about your work, but at some point, you discover that the stock options you’ve been given are only a sixth of what’s given to employees doing the same work in California, and you’re making a lot less, too, and it’s only because of where you live. Is that fair? We spoke to employees, CEOs and experts about how companies base pay on geography — and how some are giving that up altogether now that the pandemic has proven that WFH is possible for so many people. Here’s what they consider:

Deal With It

At best, the need to be tactful in the office simply results in people choosing their words carefully, so their message stays relevant and helpful to the task at hand. But at worst, we get passive-aggressive and bury our hostility and frustration under otherwise bland corporate phrases that give us plausible deniability for our cruelty. Here are some of the most common passive-aggressive phrases we all encounter on the job, plus some suggestions for more assertive but helpful alternatives.

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