215 - Jerks at Work - Tessa West

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🗓️ 19 September 2021

⏱️ 80 minutes

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In this live taping of the podcast at Caveat in NYC, Dr. Tessa West, the author of Jerks at Work, conducts quizzes to see what kind of jerk you are and what kind of jerk most-easily persuades you in the workplace. You will also learn how to counteract the behaviors of people who make work suck more than it should. West is a leading expert on interpersonal interaction and communication and will explain how to make work suck less as we return to our offices and figure out how to balance working remotely with working in-person after a year of re-imagining what work even means. West’s new book is an exploration of all the psychological research into how and why gaslighters, bulldozers, neglectors, micromanagers and more do their thing in our workplaces and how to use what we know from decades of psychological research to counteract their Machiavellian machinations.Patreon: http://patreon.com/youarenotsosmart

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0:00.0	Music
0:23.0	Welcome to the U.R. not so smart pie cast.
0:27.0	Live at Caviar in New York City.
0:45.0	Oh my god, this is so fantastic.
0:49.0	Again, thank you all for being vaccinated.
0:51.0	I'm very happy to be here in front of you.
0:52.0	I'm very happy to be vaccinated and feel safe in your presence.
0:55.0	I want to talk about some psychology stuff today with special guest, Tessa West,
0:58.0	who is a doctor who knows lots of smart, cool things about jerks at work.
1:03.0	She's just coming up very soon, a book about this topic,
1:06.0	and we want to talk about things related to that,
1:08.0	and also see what kind of jerk you might be,
1:10.0	what kind of jerks are at work,
1:12.0	and how you can defend yourself against jerks at work
1:14.0	and play a little bit of Game of Thrones.
1:16.0	I want to first talk about something that's near and near to me,
1:19.0	which is cognitive biases, and I want to talk to you about how it relates
1:22.0	to going from remote work to in-person working back.
1:25.0	This audio comes from, you are not so smart.
1:28.0	Live at Caviar in New York City, just a few weeks back,
1:32.0	I'll be doing more shows there soon, so look out for that,
1:35.0	and there will always be a live streaming option as well,
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