> Asshole behavior begets additional asshole behavior from others. Non-assholes are hardened into assholes over time to survive, and a spiral of incivility reigns.

I've been infected by this before. Never again. (I prefer to slap up so I ended up getting shown the door.)

Before we go through a hiring round with my team nowadays, I like us to review what I've seen approvingly referred to over on Metafilter as The Baboon Article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/13/science/no-time-for-bulli...