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Deeply unsettling corporate phenomenon where colleagues use excessive emojis in professional emails to mask their passive-aggressive rage, leaving you to decode whether a smiling…

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Corporate culture has stripped away the ability to be directly confrontational. Instead, employees weaponize cheerful emoticons to convey frustration, creating a toxic environment of forced positivity.

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