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by unionpivo 1848 days ago
> I don't want to work with sociopaths who can't be kind to a voice on the phone.

Sociopaths are an outliers and rare. But most people empathize less with people they have not met in person (prof: the internet, even before social media).

Add deadlines and stress to that, and you have otherwise normal people behaving worse than they would otherwise. Source: me, working with remote teams for past 20 years.

Like the person above said, you (or someone) have to be actively on the lookout for such issues, or things can get get bad really fast (I am talking days and weeks not months).