" The workplace can throw so much negativity at an INTJ, I always felt like I was being punished for trying to help. Ideas to improve efficiency and reduce stress were met with accusations of arrogance. I was accused of 'not liking' people because I didn't go out of my way to make friends"
K, I felt the exact same way that I was always accused of selfish and having my own agenda when I was only trying to help others. Because as an INTJ female, we can see the gap of process and help improve it so that we think it can make others less stressful, however, they considered it as a mean or our game to show we are better than them, I guess that's how some people might perceive the situation. The other thing I think it is our perfectionism doing the work, in particular, when we are not in a leadership position. We always have that tendency of continuous improvement where not everyone think like us and if the change impacts on others, they would think INTJ is control freak and intrude their territory so my current solution is focusing on more of change my own territory and if I have to work with others for change, I will get everyone together, share the thoughts and get the buy-in.
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" The workplace can throw so much negativity at an INTJ, I always felt like I was being punished for trying to help. Ideas to improve efficiency and reduce stress were met with accusations of arrogance. I was accused of 'not liking' people because I didn't go out of my way to make friends"
K, I felt the exact same way that I was always accused of selfish and having my own agenda when I was only trying to help others. Because as an INTJ female, we can see the gap of process and help improve it so that we think it can make others less stressful, however, they considered it as a mean or our game to show we are better than them, I guess that's how some people might perceive the situation. The other thing I think it is our perfectionism doing the work, in particular, when we are not in a leadership position. We always have that tendency of continuous improvement where not everyone think like us and if the change impacts on others, they would think INTJ is control freak and intrude their territory so my current solution is focusing on more of change my own territory and if I have to work with others for change, I will get everyone together, share the thoughts and get the buy-in.