Not to be outdone by the previous seventeen signs of team dysfunctionality, I have twenty-five more warning signs!

Scarlet Pruitt describes the damage in an article on HR World. For your convenience, here's what to watch out for:

1. Nothing can get done without the boss's approval.
2. Nothing can get done unless employees go behind the boss’s back.
3. No one is sure who the boss really is.
4. No one is getting paid on time — or at all.
5. Cubicle mates IM (instant message) each other but never talk.
6. No one contributes in meeting because everyone is busy IM-ing.
7. Too many pointless meetings are being held.
8. There's more than one "secret couple" on staff.
9. Attorneys outnumber staff.
10. Reward system? What reward system?
11. The IT head gets arrested for hosting porn on company servers.
12. IT rules are so strict that you’re not allowed to know your own computer login.
13. Your boss — an eccentric Internet millionaire — offers to pay your monthly salary in gold coins because "gold is more stable than the dollar."
14. Your manager was hired because she listed "whiskey" as a hobby on her résumé.
15. Your co-worker decides to show, not tell, the visiting U.K. executive what a "wedgie" is at an office holiday party.
16. The boss takes pride in his "wall of shame," where employee mistakes are posted and circled in red for the entire world to see.
17. The boss screams at the assistant when there's skim milk instead of half-and-half in the coffee.
18. Emergency drills are conducted without employees being told that it's a drill.
19. At least once per week, you hear quiet sobbing from an adjacent cubicle.
20. Entire departments go to lunch together every day, leaving parts of the company completely unmanned for hours at a time.
21. What matters is not what you’ve accomplished in a day, but how many hours you were seen "working."
22. The accounting department has accumulated 23 weeks of paid vacation because no one there has ever taken a day off.
23. Managers are CCd on every company email, even when it’s just about where to order lunch.
24. The only way someone can get promoted is if a senior staff member dies.
25. No one ever gets fired, no matter how ineffective they are at their job.

Wow! Glad I don't at a company where #21 & #25 are the rule of law. Sounds like a government job! ; + )

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