Negativity At Work

I have a co worker that is, and has been, very negative. I know there always is one or another reason people turns negative towards the work they do everyday. Be it the working environment, the boss, the pay, other co workers, hell lot of them. And sometimes, a bit of negativity is not a bad thing. Nobody is a sheep and we are human after all. But recently this one's negativity has been growing out of control. I guess I am the only person there to listen to him complaining all the time? When I finally gave up give one or two comments on his endless daily, even hourly complain, this co worker finally decided to quite.

I don't know if this one really would quite or not. It's beyond hard to find a job these days. But his negativity is really becoming toxic. For some reason subtly is not his thing, he would always like to comment pointedly and often openly on things that should be kept below the table. And most of time he would look at my direction for support. Sure most of the topics he dislikes really need improvement, but negativity won't solve a damn thing. On the contrary, negativity is really the easy way. For me, current work environment is not perfect, but because of my previous experience in other companies, it is not unique or even worst at all. If you can't cop with this one, well, I don't think any other company would be any better at all. Unless, you are lying to yourself.

Changing a job sometimes I don't think requires so much negativity.

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