Chapter 19. Oppositional Coworkers
Any Way but Your Way
Oppositional coworkers are contentious. They argue with you about anything and everything. It is not because they dislike you; it is the only way they know how to interact.
Desperately and constantly trying to defend their autonomy, they reject what others want in order to prove to themselves that they are not being dominated and pushed around. They are not looking to have a certain option adopted; they are looking to prevent your option from being adopted. In the process, what they actually prefer may be lost.
To protect their self-esteem they deny their responsibility for problems and blame others whenever possible. The feeling that they are always being dominated leads to a reservoir ...
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