1. Leveraging: Sowing discord, causing conflicts between you and others, using others' hands to deal with you.
2. Framing: Assigning you dirty, tiring, and mistake-prone tasks; when problems arise, making you bear the blame and take the fall.
3. Hypocrisy: Behind your back, finding ways to undermine you, then expressing sympathy to you afterward, making you see them as a benefactor and be grateful.
4. Taking credit: Claiming all your achievements and efforts as their own.
5. Framing: Spreading various rumors unfavorable to you, based on isolated facts, then continuously disseminating them, making others believe them as truth, leaving you with no way to defend yourself.
6. Isolation: Smearing your reputation to make others dislike you, cutting off your interpersonal relationships.
7. Flattery to kill: Constantly praising and flattering you, making you arrogant and oblivious, leading you to make mistakes.
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The 7 Major Pranks in the Workplace
1. Leveraging: Sowing discord, causing conflicts between you and others, using others' hands to deal with you.
2. Framing: Assigning you dirty, tiring, and mistake-prone tasks; when problems arise, making you bear the blame and take the fall.
3. Hypocrisy: Behind your back, finding ways to undermine you, then expressing sympathy to you afterward, making you see them as a benefactor and be grateful.
4. Taking credit: Claiming all your achievements and efforts as their own.
5. Framing: Spreading various rumors unfavorable to you, based on isolated facts, then continuously disseminating them, making others believe them as truth, leaving you with no way to defend yourself.
6. Isolation: Smearing your reputation to make others dislike you, cutting off your interpersonal relationships.
7. Flattery to kill: Constantly praising and flattering you, making you arrogant and oblivious, leading you to make mistakes.