428: But What if Your Workplace is Toxic? with Robert Glazer
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Lucas Rockwood
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🗓️ 8 September 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
But What if Your Workplace is Toxic?
with Robert Glazer
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I had an office job that was so boring, I used to photocopy my face while guzzling free office coffee and snacking on breath mints. As long as I was hovering near the copy machine, everyone assumed I was doing something productive.
After a few days of this linger-guzzle-mint-chomp routine, my colleague, Cynthia, felt we needed to add some occasional stapling to our escapades lest we be found out. So we started making zines out of my best xeroxed smash-face printouts. Oh, good times.
Life is too short to hate your job, and yet most of us do. With telecommuting at an all-time high, some jobs have become more tolerable, but do you truly feel meaning and purpose at work? Do you feel like you’re working toward a worthy goal? These are hard questions I don’t have the answer to, but my guest on the show has created a multi-award winning workplace, so he’s got some great ideas.
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ABOUT OUR GUEST
Robert Glazer is the founder and CEO of Acceleration Partners marketing agency.His agency has won numerous awards including Glassdoor's Employees' Choice Awards (2 years in a row), Ad Age's Best Place to Work, Entrepreneur's Top Company Culture (2 years in a row), Great Place to Work & Fortune's Best Small & Medium Workplaces (3 years in a row) and Boston Globe's Top Workplaces (2 years in a row). His writing has been featured in Forbes, Inc. and Entrepreneur magazines, Bob shares his ideas and insights via Friday Forward email newsletter, his Elevate podcast, and his books including: Friday Forward and Elevate.
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| 0:00.0 | It is on a Sunday afternoon, Sunday evening when you're dreading the week ahead, when Monday morning is right around the corner and you just don't want to go to work, you hate your job. |
| 0:12.0 | And I haven't had that experience for many, many years, |
| 0:14.6 | a couple of decades actually, but I've had that experience |
| 0:17.1 | plenty, and it's one I'm glad to be rid of. |
| 0:19.7 | Why do people hate their job? |
| 0:20.8 | Well, I know statistically that 80, 85% of you listening |
| 0:24.1 | hate your job. |
| 0:25.2 | And this is self-reported, all kinds of different studies |
| 0:27.4 | show this. |
| 0:28.2 | And there's lots of different reasons. |
| 0:29.6 | For some of you, it's the commute, right? |
| 0:31.4 | Your office is 30 minutes, 45 minutes, an hour plus away, and |
| 0:35.8 | that commute just drives you crazy. For many of you, it's colleagues, you work with a bunch of people |
| 0:40.6 | who are jerks or they're mean or they're so competitive that it's |
| 0:44.7 | no fun and probably very often there's a leadership problem as well where there's no |
| 0:49.9 | appreciation there's no clear vision there's no clear focus nothing there's no clear focus, nothing's ever good enough, nothing's on time. |
| 0:55.0 | I think the most common reason, at least for me and for my staff when they're unhappy at work, |
| 1:02.0 | is when there's no clear goal and there's no clear why behind the work. |
| 1:08.0 | And what I mean by that is I think anything can really have meaning and purpose |
| 1:12.0 | if there's meaning purpose, meaning |
| 1:15.0 | cleaning bathrooms and cleaning horse stalls and serving coffee and doing |
| 1:20.1 | dishes and I've done all of those jobs by the way and that's why I'm mentioning them. |
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