I'm not disagreeing with you two, I mostly linked to the article for 2 reasons.... 1. I thought the part about sarcasm was amusing and since I live and breathe sarcasm found that it would be nice if sarcasm did make people smarter...unfortunately I also realized that was most likely a load of crap. 2. I wanted the opinion of those on here who might have had a "formal" white-market job. An opinion I now am aware of.
To be honest it can sorta depend on the job. Like, if you're working at a small gaming company with good friends...yeah, maybe, but a BIG maybe.
But if you're talking about a small-office long-hours corporate job, most of the people hate each other and are miserable (I imagine the main reason they're not at eachother's throats is they hate management more) and adding another reason for them to hate you doesn't help.