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How peer promotion creates toxic competition

The three of us who got promoted to senior level at the same time have started competing with each other in ways that feel toxic but we can't seem to stop and I don't know if the company created this dynamic or if we're just showing who we really are under pressure.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You and the people you came up with are turning on each other now that there is less room at the top.

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