One viral TikTok has young workers up in arms about the perils of being pleasant in the workplace.
A TikToker who goes by the name Jacqueline recently posted a TikTok video where she claimed that people who are "a pleasure to work with" will "never get promoted."
She added: "You will never be promoted out of a hardworking more junior position where a lot of the hard work exists ...
There's a lot of benefits to being other-oriented like we like nice people and we do nice things for those people," he added.
'Pleasant people don't bend over backwards'In Jacqueline's TikTok video, she conflates having a pleasant personality with being a pushover, according to Vogel.
Persons:
Jacqueline, Cameron Anderson, Andrew Brodsky, Brodsky, Ryan Vogel, Vogel
Organizations:
Haas School of Business, University of California, University of Texas, McCombs School of Business, CNBC, Chinese University of Hong, University of Iowa, Purdue University, Fox School of Business, Management, Temple University
Locations:
Berkeley, Chinese University of Hong Kong, agreeableness