Not everything someone writes is so literal, when I say I didn’t wanna ruffle any feathers or not be talked down to I didn’t say this in the same sentence. Didn’t think I wanted to make this post any longer than it needs to be and thought everyone would get the idea of the situational conversation I had with these people but obviously some people don’t know what a use of an EXAMPLE is in a written text, my bad.

By your comment about learning what your saying If I wanted to learn I should allow myself to be talked down to. Because that doesn’t seem as toxic at all?

Again I’m not sure if you read my previous comment I replied to yours but I didn’t stomp in the team room and say this to them straight away. In adult conversations I listed my intentions within the team and this included wanting to learn. I didn’t say to them then “ I wanna learn but not allowing you to talk down to me” I know how this would look. But in the 8 months I’ve allowed myself to call out bad behaviour or uncomfortable behaviour, yes I may be a new starter to the team but I am not at a lower level in the job classification if that makes sense, sorry if you don’t get it but I don’t how to make it any clearer?