Steve had a great (and very amusing!

) blogpost that covered this problem once. "Ten reasons why you should never get a job", or something like that. One of the reasons was that negative fellow employees can suck the life right out of you until you turn into a drone like them. You will be assimilated, resistance is futile... unless you run like your heels are on fire and your ass is catching. You can't change the people around you, or (like Kinston already said) you wouldn't be posting here. Fight the collective, get out of there!