The 3 Office 'Monsters' You've Likely Encountered At Work

Every day is Halloween if you're in a toxic workplace.

As the leaves change color and the nights grow longer, spooky season begins. Halloween marks a day when people dress up as vampires, ghosts and other evil spirits for fun ― but if you work long enough, you will encounter new monsters the rest of the year, too, at your office.

What’s frightening is that these corporate demons are actually real, and in too many workplaces, they are thriving off of the life energies of their colleagues.

At some point in your career, you will be face-to-face with a workplace monster backing you into a corner. Career experts shared tips on how to identify these harrowing monsters and how to defeat them:

Energy Vampires

Energy vampires feed off of your time and attention. Their techniques may vary, but the biggest sign of an energy vampire is how drained and tired you feel after interacting with them. You might dread bumping into them at work as a result.