Workplace Survival: Dealing With Bad Jobs

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Workplace Survival In today’s workplace, employees are going from job to job because they either do not like the job, bosses, or their fellow employees. They believe that quitting is the only answer to their problem. In the book Workplace Survival: Dealing with Bad Bosses, Bad Workers, Bad Jobs, written by Ella W. Van Fleet and David D. Van Fleet, it talks about some of the other ways people can deal with bad bosses, bad workers, and bad jobs. Before they mention how people can deal with bad bosses, workers, and jobs, the Van Fleet’s include stories of these experiences people sent to them that they went through. So how do people deal with bad bosses, bad workers, and bad jobs? One of the worst jobs can be when there is a terrible boss.

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