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Word Wiz: Office Soapboxer

An office soapboxer is the kind of colleague who simply knows that her opinions are correct, and is ready to unpleasantly and antagonistically defend them, to the detriment of the group.

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Wed Feb 01 2017

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You've probably come across a soapboxer—the kind of person who takes his spot on, say, a street corner, and yells about society's ills or holds up a (rhetorically) loud sign. But that sort of spotlight-chomping person can't always be walked right by, especially if you work with him.

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