Dear Skyrah:

You wrote in your original post about your workplace: “People also backbite each other quite horribly. It’s truly a toxic environment.” and in your post above, about different jobs: “the same bull*&^% with a slightly different configuration” (I like the latter word combination, witty)

My opinion/advice is to play relaxing music on your long commute to and from the workplace. While in the workplace be a scholar: study the people there and their backbiting methods and dynamics. Take notes and put those later in a word document. It can be a dissertation-in-the-making for a future PhD you may pursue, or a topic for an article you may want to publish some day.

Make this particular bull(&^% configuration a learning opportunity.

anita