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So some researchers decided to finally do "An empirical study of the proclivity to be offended and what it says about employees' attitudes and behaviors"...
Needless to say it isn't good for the perpetually offended. Not only are they worse performing themselves but they shit in the pool for everyone as it were.
The money shot from the conclusions/discussion:
"The most fundamental implication of this research is the finding that the current trend of taking offense to an array of events and traditions represents an nderlying phenomenon and not isolated reactions. Moreover, this state correlates with some of the most important work-related outcomes (see Kataria et al., 2012; Koys, 2001; Ostroff, 1992), and in ways one might not expect or predict. For example, one might assume those who display PTBO are the most helpful in the organization as their prescriptive morality dictates helping and providing for others (cf. Arnot, 2009; Janoff-Bulman & Carnes, 2014; Schwartz, 2002, 2010; Thomas & McGarty, 2009), but study results indicate a negative relationship between PTBO and two different forms of citizenship behavior. Moreover, PTBO negatively correlated with task performance and positively correlated with counterproductive work behaviors, suggesting not only that these individuals engage in fewer citizenship behaviors but also engage in behaviors managers and organizations want their employees to avoid."
SciHub link to paper: https://sci-hub.st/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbusres.2020.05.040
I worked with a feminist intern who wasted a lot of time making sure anything she wrote was "inclusive" when nobody asked her to. When told to cut it out, she'd say shit like lack of inclusive writing is the reason girls stick to "female" jobs.
She herself had first gone to college in a female-dominated field, dropped out, then went back in another female-dominated field. But of course, it was easier to blame her lack of ambition or lack of interest for a field like finance or physics on the absence of inclusive writing in society... By that logic I guess it's also society's and my parents' fault that I'm not an astronaut, if only they had just told me little boys who don't pay attention in physics class can go to the moon like everyone else!
She was insufferable to work with for a variety of other reasons. Mainly because she had an attitude that everything had to be done the way that made things easier for her, and if anyone refused to accommodate her she'd take it as a personal attack and complain to the boss.
From what I know, Little Miss StrongWoman "It's sexist that women give up their career more often than men to raise their kids!" went on maternity leave during her internship two years ago and hasn't worked since.