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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DaveStebbins" data-source="post: 2621062" data-attributes="member: 1427">Or you could try to set an example of how people could behave at their best and see if everyone follows it and politics ends up taking a back seat to everyone being positive and helpful. Joining the politics just, IME, leads to more politics, backstabbing, sarcasm and cynicism. Set the example of goodness; then, even if it doesn't work out, at least you can be proud of your own actions and not have to justify them as 'necessary for survival' in the office jungle.They are also pretty rare, whereas the term dislike has a much more common meaning of just not liking someone much. I think it's perfectly understandable that people interpretted your original statements as common dislike and that you were trying to get people fired without just cause, whether or not you intended it that way. That's certainly how I read it.Or people could be working only with what you have given them, trying to interpret statements with less-than-ideal amounts of background. See, most places I have encountered the term 'dislike' it has been used as a rather mild response to someone or something. I think that's why it seemed out of proportion to the actions you proposed taking in response.-Dave</blockquote>