How to Avoid Getting a Job in Today's Job Market

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35. I know a very intelligent, hard working woman in a large corporation in Ontario...

She has worked there for maybe 8 years but she will never be promoted within the company. She is unaware of the reason.

This girl at some point in her employment, fell in with a group of employees that routinely and habitually complained about other employees, perhaps her boss, maybe the workload and she was frequently overheard by management &/or HR people when in the cafeteria at lunch... and perhaps in other settings.

It is very sad really, because she is now not so negative in her outlook, but the company management overheard too much during her earlier employment years... all it takes is one or two difficult people, is the thinking, to poison the atmosphere for other employees in different positions.

Edit to add: This has nothing to do with race or the fact that she is a woman.

For such an intelligent woman, she never thought to modify her negativity and never would she have thought it would have impeded her future employment goals.