Nearly a third admit they themselves have yelled at co-workers. As a result, according to the study, workers are turning on one another. Forty-two percent say yelling and abuse take place in their work environment. While discrepancies between the sexes remain in many other work-related issues, workplace incivility apparently is not one of them. Women tend not to be rude to their peers, people they need for support, but they can be dismissive with people above or below their position, she says.
Men apparently are more democratic.
But the current state of our economy, she says, is not conducive to acknowledging that human being. She later lived in the Seychelle Islands and became an ambassador to the United Nations. Despite her multicultural background, Gonthier says she finds that because of her accent, people in the United States often treat her condescendingly. A condescending tone of voice, in fact, is one of her biggest behavioral pet peeves. They're not getting rejection letters, but jobs, so they're feeling a tremendous sense of entitlement.