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Originally Posted by Major Major
Don't really see what's wrong with what he said. If you have a personal issue with the coach or anyone else on the team, it shouldn't effect your effort level. It did and that's a big problem now as it was then.
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It is easy to say that it shouldn't, but the simple fact of the matter is that it does. I mean, that's literally why the word toxic is used in these situations: the situation is poisoning the environment, and expecting everyone to continue, unabated, in the poisoned atmosphere is wishful thinking.
there are degrees to situations like this. If you're not getting the ice-time you think you deserve, or the line-mates and opportunities that you think you deserve, the answer is to suck it up and keep working hard - and things will take care of themselves eventually.
But as the situation deteriorates, at some point it becomes toxic, whereby the situation itself is having a negative impact on the participants, to the point where simply saying 'suck it up' doesn't (correctly) apply.
If there is a poisonous element contaminating the environment, you have to remove that element before you can repair the environment.