I guess we’ve reached that true point within the quarantine where many people are fed-up. I have it — I’m there, too — but I’ve arrive at the understanding that the frustration has produced a strange influx of passive-aggressive communications during my workplace. In an unprecedented time where every one of my colleagues work from your home and none of us have experienced one another in-person for half a year, tensions are high, plus it’s not quite as easy as it was previously to mention objectives on the job. The conversations I have been engaging in with my colleagues have been passive-aggressive, to say the least as of late, from e-mails to direct messages. This will make the at-home work environment a lot more than a small stressful, but within the past months, I’ve show up with a few techniques to cope with this.

For beginners, trust your gut.

If you think as if the tone associated with the email or message is “off,” and also this hasn’t been a problem into the past, possibilities are, you’re right – your colleague has been passive-aggressive. Read more