Suzy Welch: The One Job Offer You Should Never Accept

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Don't make this dead-end gig your "unhealthy full-time side hustle."

Are you the person in your company who cleans up your boss’s messes and soothes the hurt feelings they leave in their wake?

If the answer is yes, says bestselling management author and CNBC contributor Suzy Welch, “you’re probably a toxic handler — a job likely handed to you without having been asked, and one you should shed as soon as humanly possible.”

The concept of the “toxic handler” was first introduced in a 1999 Harvard Business Review article written by Canadian business academics Sandra Robinson and the late Peter Frost. In the article, Welch tells CNBC Make It, “Frost and Robinson did a brilliant job describing the heroics that toxic handlers often perform to keep their teams functioning.”

“Usually,” Welch says, ”[toxic handlers] are close in stature to the boss — a second-in-command, so to speak. And in that role, they manage to do their own jobs, plus spend an inordinate amount of time putting out the fires their boss has started.”

Welch says this job is an “unhealthy full-time side hustle,” and one that probably sounds all too familiar to many professionals.

In almost every situation, “being a toxic handler is a dead-end gig.” For one, it’s emotionally draining. And in many cases, “jerk bosses do get fired, and their toxic handlers are usually the collateral damage that goes out the door with them.”

“There’s no shame in being a toxic handler,” she emphasizes. “It’s a role usually imposed on the nicest people in an organization.”

But if that role has been given to you then it’s in your best interest to give it back, even if that means going to HR about the situation. “Your toxic boss may not be happy — he needs you to survive,” she says. “But if you want to survive, you have to let him clean up that mess himself. ”

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When I was a janitor I was cleaning up everyone's toxic jobs.

billybob-hvhl
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Funny, 48 laws says make your boss look good. I was this for a bad boss, he got pushed out and then the new management thought I was just a mini him which wasn’t the case at all. I wasn’t trusted and I eventually got pushed out as well. Sucks, guess you’re right. But damn, you lose if you don’t make your boss look good and you lose if you stay off to the side. In my company HR was just as bad as my boss so IDK... corporate life just sucks.

nightlifeking
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This is right on time, I’m currently making a video about 7 signs that it’s time to quit your job and a toxic environment is one of them!

YoungProfessionals
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Andy from the fyre festival doc should have watched this

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Somebody will take that job one way or another

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If this was true there will be no perfect The Office series 🤔

IngCesarJimenez
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It's amazing how draining that can be!

calvinraab
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Do people call it “chief of staff” nowadays?

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I'm a boss, how do I get one of these? 😅

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Funny--toxic handlers that I've met on jobs like to be the one to subtly say "oh...I know boss is a jerk...I get along with him/her though...s/he likes me..I don't know why" and then sort of smile as if to say they have some great quality that makes a nasty person like them when that person hates everyone else. No toxic handler--you're the boss' pet who's dumb enough to deal with the trash. And when it's all over, no one trusts you because you were the person who never showed any leadership (i.e., speak up when the boss unreasonably fires someone or sexually harasses someone or bullies anyone).

rawfoodsgirl
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Wow the Village of Oak Park should be ashamed of itself toxic Handler what about toxic pedestrians I mean I guess they could be originally from New York but have you ever been a Marion Street I would recommend staying far away

DevinSymone
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I get anxious if things aren’t organize. Well, I guess every story needs an underdog? Gosh. I’m a mess 😂

hannamartinez
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Most job have this aspect of this. Deal with it. Unless you are calling the shot s . honest most of us all have someone we report to

ohcrapitsmrG
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So basically anyone who works for Donald Trump. Got it.

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