Talking trash does not align with healthy workplace culture. If healthy culture is important to you, trash talk has to go.

Talking trash has never solved a problem. It has never made a relationship better or improved performance. Rather, it is a default reaction in alignment with an unrecognized aim: to avoid pain. Talking trash about a coworker identifies the source of discomfort as something outside oneself, taking it off one’s shoulders, placing it instead on the shoulders of that coworker.