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There is a classic quote by Machiavelli:

"People should either be caressed or crushed. If you do them minor damage they will get their revenge."

There is something in "small details" that make us just to feel humiliated. The kind of thing that is not serious enough to understand is needed "well, I get the company is in bad shape", but it feels like a personal offense "What?? I just got a word from my manager because I left yesterday 10 minutes earlier, when we have 'flexible hours'? F*ck you!" When I think about the times I've been most upset with my workplace, it's always for those stupid details. They fell like personal humiliations. And personal problems are way worse than profesional ones...



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