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Companies Try to Weed Out Petty People Who Lack Resilience

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You know that annoying co-worker who argues with everyone about everything and tends to pick fights over the littlest issues?

Companies are increasingly trying to weed petty employees out. Colleagues who are talented but argumentative in the office can often drag down morale and impede productivity, says Ilona Jerabek, who has a Ph.D. in psychiatric genetics and runs Canadian Internet psychology testing company PsychTests.com.