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When professional cohorts create toxic competition disguised as collaboration

We're all in the same MBA program and there's this unspoken competition where everyone pretends to be collaborative while actually hoarding opportunities and information. I'm exhausted by the fake friendliness and I think we're all worse off for it but no one talks about it.

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Everyone in your program pretends to cooperate while secretly competing, and the fakeness is wearing you down.

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