‘I quit my job because I wasn’t getting on with my colleagues. Hearing my friends talk about all the nasty people at their workplaces, I don’t feel like ever working again. Does working make you meaner?’ Including my first workplace, which I’d quit because of burnout syndrome, I’d worked in four different places so far, and sure, there had been people with whom I hadn’t especially got along, but I’d never experienced anyone being out-and-out mean to me. It seemed that if people had any scrap of energy to spare, they preferred to put it to use either in doing their job, or in their private
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