Microaggressions (linked with bad behaviuor) 

Introduction

Microaggressions can include

“... tiny, often unconscious gestures, facial expressions, postures, words and tone of voice which can influence how included (or not included) the people around you feel…”

Guy Kelly, 2024 

Some examples include

“... looking at your phone while people are talking to you, rolling your eyes, raising your eyebrows, speaking in the wrong tone of voice…”

Guy Kelly, 2024

Microaggression may also be embedded in the expressions such as

“...’I’ve got it’, ‘say no more’, ‘we know exactly what you mean’...”

Guy Kelly, 2024

Some other microaggressions:

-  Popping (‘just popping over to my desk’, ‘just popping in for a sandwich’, ‘just popping in for a quick talk’, etc)

-  Prescare al desko (smelly food)

-  Choosing the middle urinal when all 3 are vacant (includes texting with both hands while urinating; loudly talking or spitting or farting while using urinal)

-  Does anybody want anything from the outside world? (don't use the words ‘outside world’ )

-  Using… after everything… (don’t use…)

-  Telling people your step count (when nobody's interested or cares) 

-  Putting the milk back in the fridge (when somebody else wants to use it)

-  Telling people you've started a podcast (most people are not interested)

-  Replying all (the digital version of yelling across the room)

-  Admonishing people for not replying to all

-  Buying relentless quantities of biscuits, cakes, sweets, chips, crisp, etc (despite its generosity, most people are not interested)

-  Sitting in the canteen for the full lunch hour (watching something on your phone and/or reading a novel)

-  Emailing ‘just checking whether you saw my message/email

-  Saying Ta’ (trying to be grateful)

-  Sending an email before 6:00 am or after 7:00 pm (unless you are on night shift)

-  Conducting some spontaneous mid-afternoon exercise (so that everyone knows about it, by not changing your clothes afterwards)

-  Unnecessary copying in senior management (when sending an already passive-aggressive email) 

-  Putting on noise-cancelling headphones (this implies that your colleagues make too much noise)

-  Winking at people (trying to big note yourself)  

-  Lurking in shared Google doc without explanation

(main source: Guy Kelly, 2024)