I currently work with two partners who hate me (yes, looking to lateral). Any advice on how to keep energy up when working for them is just exhausting?
Yes I drink caffiene and water. Yes I exercise when I can. TIA!

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I have no idea how to do that. But I would just steal little things from them whenever you can - paperclips, hats, staplers. Then when you see them you’ll be able to laugh inside about how you are a very smart thief and have outsmarted them, which will give you a smile instead of the usual frown that comes from thinking about throwing them out of a tall tree

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Don’t? If they already hate you and you are leaving anyway, why kill yourself for them?

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When I was a new attorney and went to work for a toxic firm I came home every night and cried. I dreaded waking up. My then boyfriend (now my husband) told me to either get a shrink or find a new job. The next day I sat in on a deposition with my a-hole supervising partner. During break I went to the plaintiff's attorney and asked if he was hiring. Went to work for his firm for two years to get a breather and then returned to defense firm hell. My advice is to get a headhunter and get out of your toxic place. Things will work out in the end. And karma is a boomerang.

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Beta blockers if they are making you anxious.

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Propranolol

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